1. Warm up Introduction to Progressivism
Imagine: The year is You have always been a “glass is half-empty” kind of person. However, as your New Year’s resolution, you have decided to try to be more optimistic about things. You have decided to make a list of all of the good things in America. You can’t, however, forget all of the negatives, so while you are making a list of all of the positives, you list beside that everything that is wrong/could improve in the country at that time.

2. “Gilded Age”
Looked nice on the outside, truly was CORRUPT and dirty on the inside
Now we are on Progressive Era

3. …Why the Indians wonderful stadium is called “Progressive Field” 
PROGRESSIVE “ERA”
SYNONYMS:
GROWING
DEVELOPING
“making progress towards better conditions”
…Why the Indians wonderful stadium is called “Progressive Field” 

4. Goals of the Progressive Era
1. Protecting Social Welfare
2.Promoting Moral Improvement
3.Creating Economic Reform
4.Reforming Local Government

5. Returning Power to the People
Protecting Social Welfare
Attempt to soften
harsh conditions
of Industrialism
Returning Power to the People

6. Protecting Social Welfare: Reforms
YMCA & Salvation Army created
Established soup kitchens & recreational facilities
Keating-Owen Act
1916 ban goods produced by child labor
Muller v. Oregon
limited women to a 10 hour workday

7. Returning Power to the People
Promoting Moral Improvement
Good Morals = Good Life
Returning Power to the People

8. Promoting morals: reforms
Temperance/Prohibition
- Alcohol was undermining
American morals
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
- largest women’s group is U.S. history
- 245,00 members by 1911

9. Returning Power to the People

10. Returning Power to the People
Creating Economic Reform
Separating Business and Politics
Narrowing Gap Between Upper and Lower Class
Returning Power to the People

11. Economic Reforms
Many Americans question capitalism and begin to see big business as corrupt
*Robber Barons!
Some embrace socialism
-Eugene V. Debs

12. Returning Power to the People
Reforming Local Government
Giving Power Back to the People
Holding Officials Accountable
Returning Power to the People

13. Government Reforms Wisconsin Gov. Robert M. La Follette “Fighting Bob”
3 term governor
goal: drive corporations out of politics
main target: railroads

14. Returning Power to the People
17th Amendment
- 1913
- Direct Election of Senators
Returning Power to the People

15. What do all three of these reforms have in common?
Initiative
a ballot bill by the people instead of lawmakers
Referendum
a vote on the initiative
Recall
public officials face another election before the end of their term
What do all three of these reforms have in common?

16. Natural disasters play role in reforming city Governments
- state/local governments botch
disaster relief efforts
Sound Familiar?

17. Muckrakers
Muckrakers get their name from Theodore Roosevelt who said they were too interested in the ugly side of things.
A Muckrake is something used to clean manure out of animal’s stables
Journalists and other writers who reveal (show) the need for reform.
Their investigative reports uncover the problems and make people want to reform them

18. Specific Area of Concern & Publication they wrote/illustrated
In your groups Use the information in the muckraker folder to complete your chart.
Muckraker
Specific Area of Concern & Publication they wrote/illustrated
3 specific details from excerpt/illustration
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair
Thomas Nast

19. *Research Booker T. Washington and W.E. DuBois
Top of sheet create a Venn Diagram comparing the two men’s ideas for African Americans
Bottom: Create a RAFT
Role: African American living in the South in 1900
Audience: Letter to the Editor
Format: Letter
Topic: Who has the better plan for African Americans? Why?