1. 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)

2. What is a “muckraker”?
Are there any examples of muckraking today…….?

3. 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

4. Station 1: tenement housing/ urban poor

5. 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.

6. 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”

7. (3) Women’s Rights… Margaret Sanger- nurse works with inner city women
founds “American Birth Control League” (Becomes Planned Parenthood)

8. 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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10. 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 Are there any parallels between that and the recent legalization of recreational marijuana in 9 states?

11. Prohibition/ temperance- the movement against alcohol
Women’s Christian Temperance Union…
Anti-Saloon League…
Prohibition Party…
18th Amendment
Bans manufacture, distribution,
sale, consumption of
alcohol

12. CHILD LABOR Federal Children’s Bureau created 1912
Keating-Owen Act (1916)-outlaws child labor in industries engaged in interstate commerce
declared unconstitutional
% % children working
By 1929 every state had a provision banning children under fourteen from working.

13. 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 “polices trusts”
Clayton Anti-Trust Act stronger than Sherman

14. 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)