Ch. 6- The Progressive Movement

Question: Can politics fix social

problems?

Bell Work…

Discuss the following scenario and questions with your group:

What laws regulate food, drugs, medicines, and working conditions? Do you feel current laws adequately protect Americans from harmful substances in their food? Do you believe that labor laws sufficiently protect both rights of businesses and of working people?

Your Task…Using the foldable provided, answer the prompted questions by reading Ch. 6.1: The Roots of Progressivism (pg. 202-210). You will have roughly 30 minutes.

In your groups, compare your answers and help each other to find any additional information needed.

Then, using the sticky notes provided, record the best one answer for each question onto a sticky note. Add the sticky note to the correct question poster.

Progressivism- group of reform movements of the late 1800s that focused on urban problems, the plight of workers, and corrupt political machines

Progressive Election Reforms

Direct Primary- voters select a party’s candidates for

public office

17th Amendment- voters elect their senators directly

Secret Ballot- people vote privately without fear of

coercion

Initiative- allows citizens to vote on a proposed or

existing law

Recall- allows voters to remove an elected official from

office

Referendum- allowing voters to accept or reject measures

proposed by the legislature

Muckrakers- term coined for journalists who “raked up” and exposed corruption and problems of society

Your Task…

Interactive Whiteboard Activities:

Political Cartoon: Muckrakers

Bell Work…

Read and answer the questions of Document A of the DBQ 3: Progressive Spirit and Reform.

Your Task…

In your groups, read the article, The Muckrakers, and complete the Summarizing Sections.

Your Assignment…

Complete the EdPuzzle Video Quiz: The Progressive Era.

Bell Work…

Copy and answer the following question into your notebook:

How did Progressives hope to make government more efficient and responsive to citizens?

Your Task…

Interactive Whiteboard Activities:

Timeline: The Woman’s Suffrage Movement

Opportunities for Women

1. By the late 1800s, women were finding more opportunities for education and employment

2. By 1870, 20% of college students were women

3. Women were denied access to their professions

4. Many women put their skills to work in reform movements

5. Entered the business world as bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks

Gaining Political Experience

1. Women learned how to organize, how to persuade other people, and how to publicize their cause for reform movements

2. Progressive reformers worked to end child labor, improve children’s health, and promote education

3. Prohibition- ban on alcohol that became law in 1920

4. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)- reform organization that led the fight against alcohol in the late 1800s

5. 18th Amendment- outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the US

6. National Association of Colored Women (NACW)- founded in 1896 that worked to fight poverty, segregation, lynchings, and the persistence of Jim Crow laws

Rise of Women’s Suffrage1. Seneca Falls Convention- first national women’s rights

convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written

2. 1896- Wyoming Territory became the first to grant women the vote

3. Susan B. Anthony was arrested for “knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully” voting for a representative to the Congress of the US

4. 1875- Supreme Court ruled that citizenship did not give people the right to vote

5. Opponents of the suffrage movement put forth a variety of arguments

6. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)-founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1890 to obtain women’s suffrage

Women Gain the Vote

1. NAWSA favored a state-by-state approach to win the vote

2. The National Woman’s Party (NWP) was formed in 1916 and focused on the passage of a federal amendment for women’s suffrage

3. Women’s patriotism during WWI helped weaken opposition to suffrage

4. 19th Amendment- gave women the right to vote

“One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one. The women, dissatisfied as they are with this form of government, that enforces taxation without representation—that compels them to obey laws to which they have never given their consent—that imprisons and hangs them without a trial by a jury of their peers, that robs them, in marriage, of the custody of their own persons, wages and children—are this half of the people left wholly at the mercy of the other half, in direct violation of the spirit and letter of the declarations of the framers of this government, every one of which was based on the immutable [undeniable] principle of equal rights to all.”

-Susan B. Anthony, 1872

Your Task…Create an informational poster based on one of the following topics:

Prohibition

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Carry Nation

Eighteenth Amendment

National Association of Colored Women

Fifteenth Amendment

Susan B. Anthony

National Woman Suffrage Association

National American Woman Suffrage Association

If you choose a person, write a biographical poster (think baseball card); if you choose a law/event/organization, base your information on the 5 Ws.

Your Assignment…

Read and answer the questions of Document B of the DBQ 3: Progressive Spirit and Reform.

Your Assignment…

Complete the EdPuzzle video: Women’s Suffrage.

Bell Work…

Copy and answer the following question into your notebook:

How did women gain political experience through participation in reform movements?

Your Task…

Interactive Whiteboard Activities:

Video: Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt’s Presidency1. Nominated as VP and became president when McKinley

was shot

2. Bully Pulpit- platform used to publicize and seek support for important issues

3. 150,000 PA coal miners went on strike during the Coal Strike of 1902

4. Arbitration- two opposing sides agree to allow a third party to settle a dispute

5. Square Deal- expressed TR’s belief that the needs of workers, business, and consumers should be balanced

Regulating Big Business1. Believed big business was essential to the nation’s growth

2. Roosevelt administration went after bad trusts

3. Elkins Act- prohibited RR from accepting rebates from their best customers

4. Hepburn Act- authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum RR rates and gave it the power to regulate other companies engaged in interstate commerce

5. Meat Inspection Act- required gov’t inspection of meat shipped across state lines

6. Pure Food and Drug Act- forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food and patent medicine containing harmful ingredients, and required that containers of food and medicines carry ingredient labels

Theodore Roosevelt: Conserving America’s

Futurehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCxf9eYWiaM

Your Assignment…

Read and answer the questions of Document C-I of the DBQ 3: Progressive Spirit and Reform.

Bell Work…

Copy and answer the following question into your notebook:

How did Roosevelt attempt to regulate big business?

16th Amendment- allowed Congress to levy taxes based on an individual’s income

New Freedom- called for tariff reductions, banking reform, and stronger antitrust legislation

Federal Reserve Act- created a central fund from which banks could borrow to prevent collapse during a financial panic

Clayton Antitrust Act- made illegal certain monopolistic business practices; legalized strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing

Arbitration-settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider

Insubordination- disobedience to authority

Direct Tax- tax imposed directly on a person or their property

Indirect Tax- tax that someone pays, but the tax burden falls on someone else

Income Tax- tax based on the net income of a person or business

Unfair Trade Practices- trading practices that derive a gain at the expense of competition

Your Assignment…

Complete the EdPuzzle Video Quiz: Progressive Presidents.

Your Task…In your groups, complete the Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Each president should have 4-5 unique traits specific to their presidency. Find 2-3 similarities between the three presidents (and DO NOT include that they are both presidents as one of those similarities…). Focus on their views on Progressivism. Use pages 212-225 in the text.

When you are finished, cut the Venn diagram out and glue into your notes.

Your Assignment…

Read and answer the questions of Document J of the DBQ 3: Progressive Spirit and Reform.

Then, answer the following question using the 5 paragraph essay format:

Why was societal improvement a necessary component of Progressivism?