1. 09/18 Bellringer 5+ sentences Write about something you’d like to change. It could be a law, something at school, a parental rule, etc. How is it now? How would you like it to be? Why?

2. Reggie Dabbs

3. 09/21 Bellringer 5+ sentences The widespread greed and corruption in the Gilded Age led to a reform movements called Progressivism. Writers, called “muckrakers”, wrote about government corruption, crime, disease, slums, and many other things. Do you think writers can help improve the way people live? What do you think you could change by writing about?

4. Video: The Progressive Movement

5. Urbanization had led to overcrowding, crime, poverty and pollution. Industrialization led to dangerous working conditions, low pay, long hours and monopolies Political machines led to political corruption The Progressive Era (1890-1920) was in direct response to problems created during the Gilded Age

6. Early reformers were part of a movement called the Social Gospel Movement which taught that to honor God, people must help others and reform society Progressive reformers were active in campaigning against slums, tenements, child labor, alcohol abuse, prostitution, and political corruption

7. Hull House was the first settlement house which offered baths, cheap food, child care, job training, health care to help the poor An early reformer was Jane Addams who created Hull House in Chicago

8. The YMCA created gyms and libraries to help young men and children The Salvation Army created nurseries and soup kitchens

9. Florence Kelley fought to create child labor laws and laws limiting women to a 10 hour day

10. Many reformers saw alcohol abuse as serious problem Frances Willard and Carrie Nation led the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) to fight for prohibition laws Frances Willard Temperance reformers hoped that ending alcohol would reduce corruption and crime (especially domestic violence)

11. Reformers gained prohibition laws in rural areas and states in the South and West In 1919, the states ratified the 18 th Amendment which outlawed alcohol throughout the USA

12. Investigative journalists known as muckrakers exposed corruption, poverty, health hazards, and monopolies

13. Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives (1890) exposed urban poverty and life in the slums

14. Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices and called for the break-up of large monopolies

15. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses and led to government regulation of food industries

16. Muckrakers Documents Activity