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Progressivism What issues did they focus on?

Progressivism What issues did they focus on?. Honors American History Chapter 8. Wake Up America!. Roots of Progressivism. Reaction to: Social Problems of Industrial Age Laissez-Faire Policies and Attitudes Who were the Progressives? What was their solution?.

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Progressivism What issues did they focus on?

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  1. Progressivism What issues did they focus on? Honors American History Chapter 8

  2. WakeUp America!

  3. Roots of Progressivism • Reaction to: • Social Problems of Industrial Age • Laissez-Faire Policies and Attitudes • Who were the Progressives? • What was their solution?

  4. A Belief System  The Social Gospel A Community Institution  The Settlement House A Social “Saint”  Jane Addams Motivating the Progressives

  5. What were the muckrakers? Who were the most famous? Who helped to energize their cause? What did the muckrakers hope to gain?

  6. Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives (1890)

  7. Mulberry Street Bend, 1889

  8. 5-Cent Lodgings

  9. Men’s Lodgings

  10. Women’s Lodgings

  11. Immigrant Family Lodgings

  12. Dumbbell Tenement Plan Tenement House Act of 1879, NYC

  13. ”Bandits’ Roost”

  14. Mullen’s Alley ”Gang”

  15. The Street Was Their Playground

  16. Lower East Side Immigrant Family

  17. Another Struggling Immigrant Family

  18. Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lived(1890)

  19. Why was Jacob Riis important to the reform movement? What were the major social problems facing the urban poor? Muckrakers

  20. Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens

  21. What impact did this book have on the United States? What film in 2004 depicted the effects of a fast-food only diet on the human body?

  22. Muckraking the Chicago meat-packing industry. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906)

  23. 1906 – Meat Inspection Act 1906 – Food and Drug Administration formed Results of The Jungle * Progressivism was a reaction to laissez-faire capitalism.*

  24. Housing Reforms 1. Lillian Wald- 2. Tenement Act of 1901- 3. Impact??? Reforming Society • Fighting for Civil Rights 1. NAACP- 2. ADL-

  25. Settlement Houses • What was their purpose? • What was the Hull House? Who founded it? • Who started the settlement house in NY? In Richmond? • How did the social gospel idea influence the rise of settlement houses?

  26. Hull House

  27. Urban Reforms

  28. Child Labor

  29. Child Labor

  30. Child Labor

  31. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911

  32. Triangle Shirtwaist FactoryAsch Building, 8th and 10th Floors

  33. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  34. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  35. Inside the Building After the Fire

  36. Crumpled Fire Escape, 26 Died

  37. Dead Bodies on the Sidewalk

  38. Rose SchneidermanThe LastSurvivor Quote in text.

  39. Scene at the Morgue

  40. Labor Unions March as Mourners

  41. Out of the Ashes • ILGWU membership surged. • NYC created a Bureau of FirePrevention. • New strict building codes werepassed. • Tougher fire inspection ofsweatshops.(NY passes toughest fire-safety laws in the nation.) • Growing momentum of support for women’s suffrage.

  42. Workplace Reforms

  43. City Government Reforms 1. Reform Mayors- 2. commission form of government- 3. council manager- State Government Reforms 1. Robert La Follette- 2. Charles Evans Hughes- Election Reforms –What are they? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Reforming Government

  44. Government Reforms Initiative Referendum Recall 17th Amendment

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