1. Chapter 6 Progressive Era 1898-1920
Section 1 : The Progressives
Muck-Rakers
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”
Ida Tarbell
Section 2: Women’s Rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Prohibition
Section 3: Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Section 4: Taft and Wilson

2. Ch 6.1 Progressives The Gilded Age
Mark Twain

3. Ch 6.1 Progressives gilded = golded
Cheap material (wood, iron, plastic)
painted to look like gold
Looks expensive on the outside
Cheap on the inside

4. Gilded Age Gilded Age Mansions
Riis Photographs of true Gilded Age Life

5. Ch 6.1 Progressives
Muck-raker = someone who exposes (digs up) the bad things of society

6. Ch 6.1 Progressives
Muck-raker = someone who exposes (digs up) the bad things of society
Progressive = Someone who wants to make the Quality of Life better for all Americans
Jacob Riis – Photographed the ghetto
Upton Sinclair- Wrote about horrible meatpacking conditions
Ida Tarbell- Wrote about Standard Oil corruption
Teddy Roosevelt – 26th President
-Coined “Muck-raker”
- Created the Progressive Party
-Square- Deal
-Conservation Movement

7. Ch 6.1 Progressives Jacob Riis
Progressive = Someone who wants to make the Quality of Life better for all Americans
Muck-raker = someone who exposes (digs up) the bad things of society
Jacob Riis

8. Ch 6.1 Progressives Photographer of the slums Jacob Riis Muckraker
Five Cent Lodging Riis

9. Five Cent Lodging - Riis

10. Kids Sleeping in the Corner - Riis

11. Sleeping on Stairs - Riis

12. Street Arabs - Riis

13. Bandit’s Roost Riis

14. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Ch 6.1 Progressives
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Progressive
Muck-Raker
Exposed Meatpacking Conditions

15. MuckRaker The Jungle = A book about bad meatpacking conditions
Ch 6.1 Progressives
MuckRaker The Jungle = A book about bad meatpacking conditions

16. Chicago meatpacking The Jungle By Upton Sinclair Muck-Raker
Progressive

17. Chicago meatpacking The Jungle By Upton Sinclair Muck-Raker
Progressive

18. The Jungle By Upton Sinclair

19. The Jungle By Upton Sinclair

20. The Jungle By Upton Sinclair

21. Ida Tarbell Progressive Muck-Raker6
Progressive Muck-Raker
Journalist- Reported about corruption within John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Co.

22. Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
New York- 1911
10 stories Tall
Made Women’s Shirts

23. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
500 workers
All immigrant girls
Ages 15 to 16 years old Doors Locked to prevent theft

24. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
Fire broke out on the 8th floor
Fire-escapes collapsed
Elevators could only hold 10 at a time
Ladders did not reach

25. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
Women Jumped from the 10th floor
Hundreds Watched helplessly

26. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
145 women died

27. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
Political
Aftermath

28. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
Political Aftermath

29. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
New state laws
Workplace safety
Building Inspectors
Became model for the rest of the U.S.

30. Ch 6: The Progressive Era1
Ch 6: The Progressive Era
Section 2: Women’s Rights & Prohibition

31. Suffrage = Ability to vote
Women’s Suffrage = women can vote

32. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women’s Rights Suffragist
Progressive

33. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
During Slavery
Was an abolitionist
Supported 13th Amendment (Banning Slavery)
After Civil War
Opposed 14th & 15th Amendments
Did not believe Afro-American men should be able to vote before women

34. Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention

35. Seneca Falls Convention 1848
July Seneca Falls, New York
300 attendees
Declaration of Sentiments
First Organization of Women for Women’s Rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848
Fredrick Douglas-Abolitionist

36. Declaration of Sentiments

37. Susan B. Anthony
Women’s Suffragist

38. Susan B. Anthony
Spoke in front of Every Congress From

39. 1872 - Registered to in New York and then voted
Registered to in New York and then voted. (This was illegal) She was arrested & forced to pay a fine

40. Susan B. Anthony Coin

41. Prohibition
To prohibit = to ban
prohibited (banned) alcohol

43. Prohibition
1919 –18th Amendment = Federally Outlawed Alcohol

44. Prohibition?
Lasted till Repealed by the 21st Amendment

45. Ch 6.1 Progressive & Ch 6.2 Women’s Rights & Prohibition
1. Why did Mark Twain call the Late 1800’s the Gilded Age?
2. What is a Muckraker?
3. What is a Progressive?
4. How was Jacob Riis a Progressive?
5. What was Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” about?
6. What was Ida Tarbell’s book about?
7. What did the Triangle Shirtwaist Company make?
8. What were some of the dangerous conditions of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co.?
9. What killed most of the women at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co.?
10. How did the tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. affect U.S. Laws?
11. What does “suffrage” mean?
12. Which suffragist was famously put on a coin?
13. For which agenda was the Seneca Falls Convention pushing?
14. Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention?
15. Why was Susan B. Anthony arrested?
16. What does it mean to prohibit?
17. What is “Prohibition”?
18. Which amendment enforced Prohibition?
19. During which years was Prohibition in affect?
20. How did Prohibition end?

46. Ch 6.1 Progressive & Ch 6.2 Women’s Rights & Prohibition
1. Why did Mark Twain call the Late 1800’s the Gilded Age? Looked good but was bad
2. What is a Muckraker? Digs up bad things on society
3. What is a Progressive? Tried to make American lives better
4. How was Jacob Riis a Progressive? Photographed
5. What was Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” about? Bad Meatpacking conditions
6. What was Ida Tarbell’s book about? Standard Oil Corruption
7. What did the Triangle Shirtwaist Company make? Women’s Shirts
8. What were some of the dangerous conditions of the T.S. Co.? Locked Doors, Crowded,, ect
9. What killed most of the women at the T.S. Co.? Fire
10. How did the tragedy at the T.S. Co. affect U.S. Laws? Made Buildings/workplace safer
11. What does “suffrage” mean? Ability to vote
12. Which suffragist was famously put on a coin? Susan B. Anthony
13. For which agenda was the Seneca Falls Convention pushing? Women’s Rights
14. Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
15. Why was Susan B. Anthony arrested? Voted
16. What does it mean to “prohibit”? Ban / Not Allow
17. What is Prohibition? Alcohol is Illegal / Banned
18. Which amendment enforced Prohibition? 18th
19. During which years was Prohibition in affect?
20. How did Prohibition end? 18th Amendment Repealed / 21st Amendment