19-1 The Progressive Era 1880-1920

Warm up:

UnionsMonopoliesTrustbustersStrike (labor related)

Define!!

Red: YU41069 Yellow: WZ70538 Green: NE00818Blue: YQ03095

Background: Life in the Cities

No clean water Sewage systems Tenements Ventilation & fire codes Tuberculosis & disease Long work days Unsafe work conditions Child Labor

Target of Progressivism

Reaction to “extremes” of modern life Urbanization (living conditions) Labor conflicts (strikes, working

conditions) Immigration Environmental issues Social “problems”

Fighting Corruption

Define!!

Muckrakers exposed the issues in society Due to these conditions many Americans called

for reform in the late 1800s Problem was corrupt governments slowed progress 1) Spoils System –

To stop corruption with railroad prices the Interstate Commerce Act was passed to regulate prices

2) 17th Amendment allowed direct election of senators… Why?

Labor Strikes and Unions Unions were organized to help fight

for working conditions and wages. They would negotiate contracts. Many workers and unions became fed up

with working conditions and lack of negotiations so they went on strike.

United Mine Workers strike 1902 Coal supplies got so low Roosevelt had to

get involved to settle the dispute

Homestead Strike (Carnegie Steel) Turned violent when Frick tried to use

armed forces to clear Union workers out to make room for “strike breakers” or non union workers

Homestead Strike

3) Read the 2 different opinions of the Homestead strikes Quickcode:

Answer: How are Goldman and Frick’s claims about the Homestead strike

different?

Whose claim is more believable? Why?

Primary Source Analysis

Temperance was a movement to ban alcohol Protestant Churches strongly supported this movement

The 2 driving forces in this anti-alcohol movement were: Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Anti-Saloon League

The movement gained so much momentum that in 1919 the 18th amendment was ratified banning the make, transport or sale of alcohol

The effects of the 18th amendment are still felt today as it created organized crime groups to transport and sell alcohol as well as bootleg liquor operations

The Temperance Crusade

Women in the Progressive Era The fight for suffrage was on with the help of many key

women Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Carrie Chapman Catt Alice Paul

Stanton and Anthony started the National Woman Suffrage Association

Groups opposed suffrage saying it would disrupt society’s “natural” balance and lead to divorce and neglected children

Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote in 1890. By 1919 15 states allowed women full voting rights

In 1920 women finally won the right to vote with the ratifying of the 19th amendment

Woman’s Suffrage

4) Examine this map of suffrage before the 19th amendment. What do you notice about woman’s voting rights? Any thoughts on why it is like this?

Examine

Woman’s Suffrage:School House Rock!

Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFOieRHRzh8

5) Answer on goformative: 19th Amendment was passed when and did what? Draw!!!

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Standard OilStop and

Jot

6) What is this picture showing? What do you think the author’s opinion of Standard Oil was?

Trust Busting Large companies called monopolies controlled

entire segments of the government (banking, railroads, oil) Trust busting targeted these corporations

Sherman Anti Trust Act Outlawed monopolistic business practices- passed to

break up monopolies

In order to create competition and fair prices companies such as Rockefeller’s Standard Oil were broken into many smaller companies. (Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, etc…)

Still today we have laws that prevent monopolies from existing Example: Merger of AT&T and T-Mobile

Teddy Roosevelt

In 1904 Theodore Roosevelt ran promising people a “square deal” Fair and equal treatment for all Call for regulation contrasted “laissez-

faire (let the people do as they choose)

Supported Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts

Proposed U.S. Forest Service- creating the first national parks!

Often called first environmental president

Teddy Roosevelt

Watch the video 7) Record 5 facts about President Roosevelt

on goformative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5yNiTEfVw

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