How were the issues of the Progressive era addressed? Go over problems/ issues from packets. “Notes”- what reforms were made to address them? Assessment- choose 2 issues…. For each, Describe the problem using evidence from the stations (4) Explain how the problem is connected to the changes brought by industrialization and urbanization (4) Identify what reforms would be necessary to “solve” the problem (2)
What is a “muckraker”? Are there any examples of muckraking today…….?
Journalists who exposed problems in society Muckrakers- Journalists who exposed problems in society Ida Tarbell- abusive practices of Standard Oil Trust Lincoln Steffens- corruption in government Upton Sinclair- working conditions/ food sanitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvy0wRLD5s8
Station 1: tenement housing/ urban poor
Tenements, urban poverty: Reforms Settlement houses- offered education, child care, social activities, help finding jobs to immigrants Hull House- Jane Addams, Chicago New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 ban the construction of dark, poorly ventilated tenement buildings in the state of New York. required that new buildings must be built with outward-facing windows in every room, an open courtyard, proper ventilation systems, indoor toilets, and fire safeguards.
Station 2: Consumer Protection Upton Sinclair Writes the Jungle about meat packing industry President Roosevelt reads… demands action 1906 Meat Inspection Act 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act- “truth in labeling”
(3) Women’s Rights… Margaret Sanger- nurse works with inner city women founds “American Birth Control League” (Becomes Planned Parenthood)
Women’s Suffrage… Background review States with Suffrage by 1920 Elizabeth Cady Stanton… Lucretia Mott Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt (NAWSA) KEEP GOING STATE BY STATE… vs. Alice Paul- Nat’l Women’s Party Radical- GO FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 19th Amendment- WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE
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What were the messages of the cartoons? (Booze is “bad” because…) Since 1971, the federal government has declared a “war on drugs”. Are there any parallels to the issues of alcohol in the Progressive Era? Are the harmful effects on society of the use/ abuse of recreational drugs comparable? Is the appropriate solution to criminalize drugs… alcohol? Prohibition didn’t “work”, and alcohol is legalized again in 1933. Are there any parallels between that and the recent legalization of recreational marijuana in 9 states?
Prohibition/ temperance- the movement against alcohol Women’s Christian Temperance Union… Anti-Saloon League… Prohibition Party… 18th Amendment- 1920-1933 Bans manufacture, distribution, sale, consumption of alcohol
CHILD LABOR Federal Children’s Bureau created 1912 Keating-Owen Act (1916)-outlaws child labor in industries engaged in interstate commerce declared unconstitutional 1900- 18.2%- 1920- 11.3% children working By 1929 every state had a provision banning children under fourteen from working.
Abuses of “Big Business” Trusts= no competition Ida Tarbell- History of the Standard Oil Company What was passage about? Roosevelt- “Trust Buster Northern Securities v. US Sherman Anti-Trust Act used to break up RR trust (JP Morgan) 1911- Standard Oil broke into 33 companies (NJ- Exxon; NY- Mobil; CA- Chevron; Gulf; Texaco; BP) Federal Trade Commission 1914- “polices trusts” Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914- stronger than Sherman
Assessment: Choose two problems/ issues facing American society that were shown in the stations. For each, Describe the problem using evidence from the stations (4) Explain how the problem is connected to the changes brought by industrialization and urbanization (4) Identify what reforms would be necessary to “solve” the problem (2) (For full credit, answer questions completely and in detail)