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Progressive Era. Warm-up. What are some of the problems of city life? . Announcements. Theme. Our theme for this unit is about the Role of Government in our lives.
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Warm-up • What are some of the problems of city life?
Theme • Our theme for this unit is about the Role of Government in our lives. • Our Unit question is: ): To what extent does government have a role in your life? In other words what should government be allowed to do and not allowed to do? Why?
Recap • Reconstruction • What is it? • When was it? • What happens next?
Timeline • Reconstruction: 1865-1876 • Industrialization: late 1800s: A huge growth of the economy that made some people very rich but at the expense of workers. • Progressive Era: early 1900s (ends around 1920)
Question of the Day • What problems of society is the government responsible for fixing?
Quote Analysis • A hundred thousand people lived in rear tenements in New York City last year. Here is a room neater than the rest. The spice of hot soapsuds is added to the air already tainted with the smell of boiling cabbage, of rags and uncleanliness all about. It makes an overpowering compound. • - How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis • Summarize the quote in one sentence. • What did you use to summarize this?
Vocabulary • Progressive Era: The period of time between the 1890s and 1920s when social, political and economic reform occurred in the United States. • Muckrakers: Journalists or photographers who worked to expose the problems of the time like corruption and poverty
Conditions in the Slums • Many urban residents lived in poverty and labored under very hard conditions. • Cities were not set up for the enormous population. • 1 house = 12-16 families • Lack of fire protection • No indoor plumbing, so waste ended up in the streets. • Contagious diseases spread quickly such as tuberculosis and pneumonia.
Problems in Workplace • Sharp blades threatened meatpackers • Cotton dust plagues textile workers • Fire was a risk to everyone in tight factory conditions. • Children as young as 6 years old were working in factories to help support struggling families. “Life in a factory is perhaps, with the exception of prison life, the most monotonous life a human being can live”
Unsafe Products: Buyer Beware • Increased production meant that more products were available, but buying them was not always a good idea. • Things found in meat: • Rat dropping • Rats • Borax • Formaldehyde • Medicine consisted of: • Narcotics • Morphine • Opium • Cocaine
What is Progressivism? • The progressives took action in response to these problems. • Wanted to improve society by • Promoting social welfare • Protecting the environment • Making government more efficient and democratic • Wanted government to solve society’s problems. • Progressives were not a unified group but all shared a commitment to progress and the belief that they could improve society.
Who are muckrakers? • Group of journalists within the Progressive Movement • They uncovered the nation’s problems and wrote about them. • “raked the mud of society” • TheodoreRoosevelt
Muckrakers Respond to City Problems • Sought to expose city life problems • Conditions in Slums • Muckrakers blamed city governments for failing to provide adequate roads, sewage and power systems, and transportation. • Jacob Riis writes a book to expose “How the Other Half Lives” including disturbing photographs
Response to Problems in the Workplace • Muckrakers exposed terrible working conditions. • Initiative: when everyday American citizens tried to address the problems in the United States by proposing laws & changes • A push for laws where children were required to go to school.
Response to Unsafe Products • In 1906, Upton Sinclar wrote The Jungle. • Unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants • Muckrakers protested that big businesses were growing richer, while small businesses and the poor struggled even harder to survive.
B. Features of Progressive Reform (cont.) • Desire to make society more moral and more just • Desire to distribute income more equitably • Desire to broaden opportunities for individual advancement • Women were active in progressivism --Suffragettes like Susan B. Anthony
IV. Progressive Amendments to the Constitution • Progressive reliance on the law • 16th Amendment (1913)—federal income tax • 17th Amendment (1913)—direct election of senators • 18th Amendment (1919)—prohibition • 19th Amendment (1920)—vote for women
African Americans during the Progressive Era • Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
W.E.B. Dubois • Founder of the NAACP • Got a Ph.D from Harvard • Believed in political rights over economic rights • Talented tenth
Booker T. Washington • Born into Slavery to a white father and a slave mother • Believed it was more important to gain economic rights
Your turn • Pretend you are a modern day Muckraker, write an expose on a problem you see in society (at least 1 paragraph)
