Transcript 11th Grade- Progressive Review

Aim: Review for Test on
Progressives
Bring a #2 pencil and a pen.
Essay Topic: TWO Progressives and
their impact
1. Goals of the Progressives
Reform government
 Regulate big business
 Improve working conditions
 Better housing and medical care for the
poor.
 Stop political corruption
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2. Why need for reform?
Poor living conditions- unsanitary tenement
houses.
 Children dying from disease.
 Lack of labor laws.
 Unfair business practices
 Corruption in municipal government.
 Need for greater representation.
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3. Muckrakers
Muckrakers- journalists who reported on
social injustices.
 Upton Sinclair-The Jungle, Ida TarbellHistory of the Standard Oil Company, Jacob
Riis-How The Other Half Lives, Lincoln
Steffens-The Shame of The Cities.
 Progressives: Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow
Wilson, WEB DuBois, Booker T.
Washington, Jane Addams.
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4. The Jungle
Upton Sinclair exposed the horrors of the
meat packing industry which resulted in the
Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food Act.
 Led to creation of FDA (Food and Drug
Administration).
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5. Changes brought about
Teddy Roosevelt- Conservation, Meat
Inspection Act, Trust Busting.
 Woodrow Wilson- Underwood Tariff,
Graduated Income Tax, amendments.
 Jane Addams- created a settlement houseHull House.
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6. Roosevelt
Nickname- “The Trustbuster.” Broke up
monopolies and trusts.
 Coal Strike- forced the owners to negotiate
to avoid a winter without coal.
 Set aside public land for parks.
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7. Wilson
Underwood Tariff- decreased the amount of
taxes by 25%.
 Regulated the railroads
 Prohibition- “The Noble Experiment.”
 19th Amendment- Women’s suffrage.
 Created the Federal Reserve- regulate the
amount of money in circulation.
 Graduated income tax
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8. Settlement House
Built in inner cities to provide services.
 Education programs
 Health care
 Social activities.
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9. Characteristics
Change/ reform
 Concern for people- particularly the poor
and working class (inner cities).
 Reform government- correct abuses.
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10. Results
Changes in government: recall,
referendum, initiative, secret ballot.
 Labor laws
 NAACP
 FDA
 Settlement Houses
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11 A. Teddy Roosevelt
Created Interstate Commerce Commissionregulate trade.
 Broke up power of large corporations.
 Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat
Inspection Act as a result of The Jungle.
 Conservationist- created 5 national parks,
set aside 150 acres of forests, created the
U.S. Forest Service.
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11 B. Susan B. Anthony
First area of reform- Temperance
Movement.
 Felt women and children suffered abuse
from alcoholic husbands.
 Became part of anti-slavery movement.
 1872- Demanded women be given same
civil and political rights as men.
 19th amendment- women’s suffrage.
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11. C. Jane Addams
Founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889.
 Provided services to immigrants.
 Provided kindergarten and daycare facilities
for working mothers.
 Music and art classes.
 A library and a museum.
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11 D. Booker T. Washington
Equal rights for blacks.
 Believed that the way out of poverty for
blacks was hard work through trades
(vocational education).
 Purchase land and then political and civil
rights would follow.
 Focus on education and economic growth.
 Opposed by WEB DuBois (favored college
education).
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