1. What does it mean to be “progressive”? What kind of improvements did America need? Why does it go from 1890 and stops at 1914?

2. Guided Reading as a class: US Coach Book – Lesson 18 “The Rise of Progressivism” Pages 140 - 143

3. “The Progressive Era” By Morgan J. BurrisLexington Middle School

4. - Farmer’s party (west) - Women’s Vote - People’s Party - Limit Alcohol

5. - Sanitation, Trash, Protection - Hardly NO Middle Class

6. She wrote about abuses of Standard Oil Company! - Corruption in urban politics - Abuses of Standard Oil Company - Immigrant poor NY, tenements Click on camera for link to Jacob Riis photo gallery Click on camera for link to Jacob Riis photo gallery

7. - Vote someone OUT of office -Citizen vote directly on -proposed laws w/o Legislature - People introduce new law These ALL increase citizens' role in gov’t, making it more democratic. - 17 th. Amendment

8. Women’s Suffrage – slow start, many abolitionists also. Western States – granted voting rights, some wanted to amend US Constitution. Middle Class women supported it, organized protests. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone Carrie Chapman Catt – leader of NAWSA, threw support behind Wilson, picketed, speeches, blocked sidewalks, chained, etc. Nineteenth Amendment passed Aug. 1920  Music Video

9. “The Bitter Cry of the Children” by Muckraker John Spargo 1906. - Highlighted children in mines. Result: – Set Minimum age Limit on child labor, Max hrs worked.

10.  Pressure to create workers’ compensation laws – illness / injuries.  Zoning Laws  Building Codes  Fire Escapes  Health Codes 18 Minutes = 146 Dead March 25, 1911

11. Alcohol causes of many of societies’ problems. Temperance – limit Prohibition – Complete Ban Help stop abuse, Work production rise, 18 th. Amendment  Video Clip

12.  Public outcry to regulate Big Business.  Prevent abusing public. Ex. ICC.  Gov’t should run some business for benefit of all.

13. “The Progressive Era” By Morgan J. BurrisLexington Middle School