1. Unit 5 The Progressive Era

2. The Wizard of Oz
and
The Progressive Era

3. L. Frank Baum Born in 1856 in New York Wealth family
Interest in theater
Moved to South Dakota, then to Chicago
Mother-in-law was Matilda Gage

4. The Ruby Red Slippers/Shoes: In the original book the slippers are silver. The idea of “free silver” was to help the farmers in the Midwest because it would cause inflation or prices to go up so that the farmers could pay off their debt.
Yellow Brick Road: The gold standard

5. Dorothy Gale: Dorothy and her group are seen as Coxey’s Army.
The Scarecrow: the mid-western farmer, general public looked at the farmer as not being smart but it does take a lot of knowledge to run a farm.
The Cowardly Lion: William Jennings Bryan, 3 time presidential candidate for the populist party, great speaker, promoted the silver standard.
The Tin man: The dehumanization of the American worker because of the assembly line. Mechanical

6. Coxey’s Army 1894
Washington, DC
Dorothy lives in Kansas

7. William Jennings Bryan
Ran for President 3 times, lost 3 times
Populist, great speaker
Free silver

8. The Wicked Witch of the West
Mother nature
Bad weather
Winds
Lack of rain
Flying monkeys
poppies
The Wicked Witch of the East
bankers or financiers
The industrial businesses

9. The Wizard, Professor Marvel, doorman and coach driver.
Characterized any one of the Presidents during this time period
Being everything to everybody
Grant to McKinley
From the Midwest