■Essential QuestionEssential Question:–How did problems in the Gilded

Age contribute to “progressive” reforms in the early 20th century?

■Warm-Up Question:Warm-Up Question:–Use your notes & knowledge of

U.S. history to create a list of problems that were created in the Gilded Age (1870-1900)

–Consider: Cities, Government, the West & South, Business

■Progressives were people who wanted to strengthen American democracy and make life better for people.

■Most were Women

Urban Progressive Reformers

■Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago was a social service agency (called a settlement house) that provided help recent immigrants in

• English Language• Legal Rights• Home economics• Basic Medical care

Urban Slums

Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago

Urban Progressive Reformers■Urban reformers tried to improve

the lives of poor workers & children–YMCA created libraries & gyms

for young men & children –The Salvation Army created soup

kitchens & nurseries

Muckrakers ■Progressive reformers were aided

by a new, investigative journalism:–Muckrakers journalists

investigated and exposed political corruption, child labor, slum conditions, and other social issues

What did Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) expose?

Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) revealed Rockefeller’s unfair business practices & contributed to the government

breaking up monopolies

What did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) expose?

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) Told the story of immigrant workers

in the meatpacking industry and unsanitary

conditions& led to gov’t regulation of

food industries

Conclusions■The Progressive movement began

as an attempt to fix urban problems

–Reformers lacked unity & were dedicated to their own causes

■ Essential QuestionEssential Question:–How did Progressive reformers

attempt to improve the lives of women & African-Americans?

■ Warm-Up Question:Warm-Up Question:–How were African Americans

denied basic rights after the Civil War?

Reform for African-Americans■Southern states passed segregation

laws that required separate public and private facilities for African Americans. These were called Jim Crow laws

■Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Jim Crow laws

■Under the “separate but equal” doctrine, the Court ruled racial segregation was legal in public places

African-American Reforms■But, black leaders were

divided on how to address racial problems–Booker T WashingtonBooker T Washington

–His “Atlanta Compromise” stressed black self-improvement & accommodation with whites

■W.E.B. DuBoisW.E.B. DuBois was more aggressive

■DuBois formed the NAACPNAACP which called for immediate equality in,

African-American Reforms

■ Essential QuestionEssential Question:–How did progressives bring

reform to urban & state governments?

■ Warm-Up Question:Warm-Up Question:

–What problems did the progressives address?

Progressives helped make state governments more democratic

State of Texas

Initiative: Supporters of any

new law could collect voters’ signatures to

force a public vote on the issue.

Referendum: When enough citizens supported an initiative, the

government had to present the

issue to the public as a referendum on which the public

could vote

Citizens could remove public officials from office before their terms expired by organizing a recall election

Progressive Reform in the States–direct primary elections to allow

voters to choose candidates, not parties

–17th Amendment allowed for the direct election of Senators

Theodore Roosevelt: A “Modern” President

■TR committed to a series of reforms:–“trustbusting”–Regulating

businesses– Conservation of

natural resources

Trustbusting–The Sherman Anti-Trust Act in

1890 made it illegal for companies to restrict trade

Theodore Roosevelt,

the Trustbuster

RESTRAINT

Regulating Business■When muckraker Upton Sinclair’s

The Jungle was published,

–Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act in 1906

–To ban harmful products & end false medicine claims, the Pure Food & Drug Act passed in 1906

Unregulated Food & Medicines:The Need for the Pure Food & Drug

Act

Conservation of the Environment

■He began a Progressive conservation movement

■conserved millions of acres of wilderness lands

■Led to the national park system that included,

–Yosemite in California

–Yellowstone in Wyoming.

National Parks and Forests