Transcript 18 th Amendment

Late 1800s & Early 1900s
United States!
Reforming (changing) the U.S.
Cities were crowded, leaders
were unethical, and people
were not enjoying the quality
of life they deserved.
Think of
P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S
All sorts of people experienced
progress during the Progressive
Movement
1. Muckrakers “dug up the
dirt” on problems and
exposed their findings to
the public…usually in
writing
2. Political leaders made
positive changes
 Dirty, pollution, disease
 Crime
 Corrupt leaders
 Poor sanitation and water
 Slums, tenements
 Dangerous Living Conditions
o Building Codes improved living
conditions
o Garbage Collect, Water systems
improved sanitation and cleaned up
the cities
o Fire Department
o Street Lights
o Zoning Laws moved factories away
from apartments
 Jane Addams & Hull House
 Settlement Houses
 Salvation Army
 YMHA, YMCA
Rural Countryside
Suburbs
City Center
Slums
Tenements
Factories
Problem /
Issue
Life in slums
and
tenements
Temperance
Movement
(ban alcohol
because of
abuse)
Individual
Jacob Riis
Carry Nation Upton
Sinclair
Thomas Nast Ida Tarbell
Destroyed
alcohol with
a hatchet
Wrote The
Jungle,
exposed
poor
conditions
Political
cartoons
showed
corruption
Wrote about
Standard Oil
bad business
practices
Improved
18th
conditions of Amendment
tenements
(outlaws sale
of alcohol)
Meat
Inspection
Act 1906,
Pure Food
Bosses Jailed
U.S. Gov’t
started to
“bust up”
monopolies
Actions taken “How the
to bring
Other Half
about reform Lives” –
book &
photos
Results
Food Packing
Industry’s
unsanitary
conditions
Reforming
City
Government
s
-Bosses ruled
cities
Power of Big
Business
www.vw.vccs.edu
President Roosevelt had to clean up the
meat scandal by creating the Meat
Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug
Act in 1906
• Trustbuster!
• Environmental
Conservation
• Supported
workers
• Food/Drug Laws
NAACP –National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People – organization created to
monitor and protect the rights of
African Americans
Square Deal – Pres. Theodore
Roosevelt’s idea that everyone
should have an opportunity to
succeed – regardless of wealth
Interstate Commerce Act –
regulated business practices that
crossed state lines
*more successful than the Sherman
Antitrust Act
Federal Trade Commission –
investigated businesses suspected
of using unfair practices
19th Amendment – Women’s Suffrage
18th Amendment – Ban on Alcohol
16th Amendment – Income tax based on
salary
Take-down of political bosses (Tweed)
Civil Service Commission – hires by merit
rather than connections
National Parks
Food & Drug Laws
The rest of the slides are
practice vocabulary.
Quiz yourself!
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18
Amendment
1919Made the
manufacture and
sale of alcoholic
beverages illegal.
Temperance
Movement
People who
organized in
order to create a
ban on alcohol.
-Carry Nation
-Francis Willard
-Women’s Christian Temperance
Union
th
19
Amendment
1920Guaranteed the
right to vote
regardless of sex
(women can vote)
Jane
Addams
Founder of Hull
House in
Chicago, a
settlement house
for the poor.
Reform
To change or
improve
Progressives
Nickname for
people who
worked for
change during
the Progressive
Movement
Urbanization
The movement of
people from rural
areas (like the
country) to cities
Settlement
House
Building in a poor or
ethnic
neighborhood that
offered services,
education, and
activities.
Hull House
Settlement
House in
Chicago opened
by Jane
Addams
Civil Service
Reform
Changed in gov’t
hiring process
that focused on
merit rather
than connections.
Muckraker
Journalists who tried to
improve society
through their
investigative reporting
and photography.
Exposed health
conditions, corruption
in government, and
social problems.
Conservation
The
preservation of
natural
resources
The Jungle
Book by Upton
Sinclair which
exposed the
abuses of the
meat packing
industry
Meat
Inspection
Act
1906 Law passed as a
result of Upton
Sinclair’s novel, The
Jungle. Authorized
the inspection of all
meat products shipped
in interstate commerce
(from state to state)
NAACP
National
Association for
the Advancement
of Colored People
Progressive
Movement
Time of reform,
generally
centered in
urban areas.
Prohibition
The ban on
alcoholic
beverages in the
U.S. after the
th
18 Amendment
Pure Food
and Drug
Act
1906 LawForbidding the
manufacture and
sale of dishonestly
labeled product: All
products must have
ingredients listed
Sherman
Antitrust
Act
1890 Law –
Prohibited
monopolies
Interstate
Commerce
Act
Law that
monitored
railroads in
order to restrict
unfair business
practices
Social
Activist
Individuals who
protest and
defend individual
rights.
Ex. Jane Addams
Square
Deal
President Theodore
Roosevelt’s idea
that all people
should have an
opportunity to
succeed in the
U.S.
Tenement
Overcrowded
apartment
building in a
city slum
Suffrage
The right to
vote