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1 EARLY 1900’S AMERICA PROGRESSIVE ERA

2 EVERY GOOD INDUSTRIAL COUNTRY NEEDS…? DO NOW: List the necessities of an industrial nation.

3 SETTING THE SCENE Times of Great Change Industrialization, Imperialism, Urbanization, Mechanization, Immigration…

4 INDUSTRY

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6 UNSKILLED LABOR

7 MECHANIZATION

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9 THE MEAT PACKING INDUSTRY

10 TRIANGLE SHIRT WAIST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvKrkCLl_0U

11 UBANIZATION 9:45 Cities: start at 9:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhjqqe750A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhjqqe750A

12 IMMIGRATION http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearc hdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1068933&imageID=1583 569&total=69&num=0&parent_id=1060669&s=&notw ord=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&l word=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=7&snum=&e=w http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearc hdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1068933&imageID=1583 569&total=69&num=0&parent_id=1060669&s=&notw ord=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&l word=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=7&snum=&e=w

13 NATIVISTS

14 WHAT ARE THE MAJOR ISSUES OF THE TIME? With a partner, discuss the following questions: 1.How could the power of industry be controlled? 2.How would the millions of new immigrants make their way in America? 3.What should the country do about Poverty, disease, and racial inequality?

15 INDIVIDUALLY RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION, Should government remain narrowly limited in it’s powers, or did the times require a more potent government that would actively shape society and secure American interests abroad?

16 WHO ATTEMPTED TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? The Progressives

17 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE PROGRESSIVE? 1.Define, what you believe, Progressivism means today. 2.Can you think of any modern people that you would consider progressive?

18 CAN THE GOVERNMENT BE EMPOWERED TO… Fight Graft and Business Trusts? Regulate Corporations? Promote Fair Labor? End Child Labor? Force Conservation? Aid Women’s Suffrage?

19 HOW DID IT CHANGE OUR FOREIGN POLICY? Isolationism Vs. Imperialism– the ongoing American debate.

20 ANALYZE THIS “When I say I believe in a square deal I do not mean… To give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing”. Theodore Roosevelt, 1905

21 PROGRESSIVES FOCUSED ON… Monopoly Corruption Inefficiency Social injustice Although Progressives had many varied interests, they all wanted to, “use government as an agency of human welfare”.

22 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Let’s discuss. What do you believe using “government as an agency of human welfare” truly means? How can we put this into the context of ‘turn of the century’ 1900’s?

23 BYE BYE LAISSEZ-FAIRE? Industrialism concentrated power into the hands of a few… Who were the Progressives? Technically, they existed in all parties: -Populists: Represented the “average” individual -Women Suffragettes -Missionaries: used religion to demand social equity -Socialists: mostly European immigrants

24 RAKING MUCK Muckrakers coined by Roosevelt in 1906 -Referred to young reporters whose job it was to uncover the worst of American society. -Crusade to lay bare the muck of inequity in American society.

25 SPECULATE One Muckraker wrote, “The Treason of the Senate” in which he alleges that 75 out of the 90 elected officials were actually representing the railways and trusts (standard oil) and not the people. Do you think that Progressives were able to eradicate this issue? Let’s read a new study from Princeton University….

26 PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki10 0k/docs/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act.html https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki10 0k/docs/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act.html Developed in response to Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle.


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