1. NOT SO GILDED AGE: THE NEED FOR PROGRESSIVISM

2. DOWN TO BUSINESS Essential Question What is the purpose of Unions?
Why was the Plessy v. Ferguson case so historic?

3. WHY DO I CARE, MISS. MCCORMACK?
The turn of the century was a time period in which America began to set a foundation for the type of modern and powerful nation it would develop into during the 20th Century. Industry, technology, culture and much more was set in place to create a president for the modern American lifestyle that so many have aspired to achieve.

4. QUICKWRITE
What ideas do you have that could have helped the poor who lived in the slums at the turn of the century?

5. PROGRESS IN ACTION
Progressive Movement: reform movement to “fix” social issues that America was facing.

6. A FEW PROGRESSIVE ISSUES
Welfare Concerns (health, education, poverty, etc.)
Suffrage Cause (women’s right to vote)
Worker’s/Children’s Rights
Business Regulations
Graft Issues (anti-corruption in local elections)
Moral Issues (drinking, domestic abuse, etc.)
Conservation Efforts (environmental protection)

7. BIG BUSINESS REGULATIONS
Sherman Antitrust Act: made it illegal to create trusts that interfered with free trade
exploitation & unsafe conditions forced workers to ban together

8. THE NEED TO BAN TOGETHER
Labor Unions: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer for better conditions, wages, etc.

9. PROGRESS OF UNIONS Unions fought for: employers hate unions
fair wages
safer job sites
fewer hours
employers hate unions
feared loss in profits

10. PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRESS
free public education
Horace Mann (reformer)
required school attendance (ages 8-14)
high schools become common
Immigrant 1st generation kids encouraged to attend school
2.3% of Americans attended college (more than any time previous)

11. FEDERAL REGULATIONS regulated foods & drugs
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Muckrakers (journalist who exposed nasty-truths)
caused Teddy Roosevelt to create:
FDA= Food & Drug Administration
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food & Drug Act

12. SEGREGATION (1)
African Americans were fighting against legal discrimination
poll tax
grandfather clause
segregation
Jim Crow laws

13. SEGREGATION (2) Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896
Homer Plessy (1/8 African American) challenged legal segregation by sitting in a white railroad car and he was arrested.
Supreme Court ruled in favor of states rights
“separate but equal” became the legally acceptable form of racial segregation for another 50+ years

14. PROGRESS OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
skyscrapers
electric streetcars
suspension bridges (ex: Brooklyn Bridge)
airplanes
photography

15. CONSERVATION EFFORTS Preserved natural lands & resources in America
created National Park system
video

16. COMMON CULTURE ACROSS AMERICA
middle class emerges
leisure time
amusement parks
bicycles
spectator sports
BASEBALL!!!
newspapers sold nationwide
common access to info. for all
consumerism
advertising
catalog shopping