Objective Students will be able to1 analyze a video for key information and themes on the Progressive Era 2 explain the major issues addressed during the Progressive Era Homework Read Chapter 181 and complete the worksheet ID: 745147
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Do Now: What do you think are MAJOR problems in the US?
Objective:
Students will be able to...(1) analyze a video for key information and themes on the Progressive Era. (2) explain the major issues addressed during the Progressive
Era
Homework: Read Chapter 18.1 and complete the worksheetSlide2
Roots of Progressivism
Progressivism
– Ideas of progress…Making parts of society better
What does reform mean? Late 1800s and early 1900s it was response to Laissez-Faire economicsMuckrakers – Journalists who uncovered abuses and corruptionAll about REGULATING countrySlide3
Make a list of major issues as we go through the PowerPointSlide4
Drugs
“
Mrs. Winslow
’s Soothing Syrup”Medicine for crying babies
Contained opium!Slide5
Drugs
“
Colden
’s Liquid Beef Tonic”Prescribed for treatment of
“
the alcohol habit
”
Contained 25% alcohol!
Many other
“
tonics
”…Slide6
Drugs
Bayer Aspirin
Contained opium
The Bayer Company marketed and sold heroin!Slide7
Drugs
Coca Cola
Not only a soda, but it was also prescribed to relieve the symptoms of sinus problems and hay fever (allergy)
It contained cocaine until 1903!Slide8
Drugs
Children
’
s medicinesMany contained opium, cocaine, and alcoholSlide9
Drugs
By 1900: 250,000 drug addicts in the U.S. (population of 75 million; that
’
s les than 1%)Racism & DrugsNativists and racists used the drug issue to incite fear and hatred of non-whites
Opium was the drug of the Chinese; the gov
’
t banned all opiates
Cocaine was the supposed drug of blacks; newspapers regularly reported false stories of
“
cocainomania
”
in the South, causing whites to suspect and fear a black revolt against white society.Slide10
The Food Industry
In meat plants, workers poisoned bread and left it out so the many rats would eat it
Dead rats, rat dung, poison bread, and meat were all scooped into the hopper, packaged, and sold
Meat was regularly left out in unsanitary conditions; sometimes piled on the floor and then scooped up with a dirty shovel and packaged and soldMeat plants sold
“
Potted Chicken
”
It was not actually chicken, but rather an assortment of unknown leftovers
In the milk industry, some producers mixed chalk in water to dilute their product Slide11
Factory Conditions
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire (1911)
Doors were locked during work hours; fire broke out; many were trapped and perished because of the locked doors
In the shoe factories, women suffered from a condition where there fingernails rotted off because of continuous submersion of their hands in a leather processing dyeSlide12
Efforts to Reform the Criminal System
Electric chair introduced as a reform and humane treatment
Rapid execution, rather than the lingering of a hanging; thus, humane!
The specter of an electrocution would also deter potential criminalsProbation, parole, and juvenile systems introducedSlide13
Efforts to Reform Morals
Silent movies just came out (very short too, only a few to ten minutes long)
Reformers censored them
Movies also taught social codes of behavior: no loud talking or whistlingProstitutionA prostitute typically earned five times what a woman wage worker earnedMann Act
Federal crime to transport a woman across state lines for
“
immoral purposes
”Slide14
Voting Rights (Suffrage) Reform
Woman Suffrage
One way to get southerners to support it:
They bought the argument that allowing women suffrage would strengthen white supremacy by doubling the number of white voters (most blacks were disenfranchised – not allowed to vote)Slide15
Efforts to Control the Population
Besides immigration restriction laws, a new
“
science” was embraced to make immigrants look bad: EugenicsBelief society could be improved through genetic control
Led some states to forced sterilization of criminals, sex offenders, and the
“
mentally deficient
”
Eugenics was later embraced and practiced by Hitler!Slide16
Major Problems they focused On (Historical Contexts)
Government
How it’s run and corruption
Suffrage –> Women’s right to voteChild Labor – Health and SafetyAlcohol (Prohibition
)Slide17
Ticket to Leave
What was progressivism?
What was the biggest issues that progressives during the early 1900s had to deal with? Slide18
Do Now: In your own words, what are/were
MUCKRAKERS?
What did they do?
Objectives: Students will be able to…(1) analyze a video for key information (2) describe the impact muckrakers had on the Progressive EraHomework: 18.1 Worksheet DUE THURSDAYIntro Survey DUE TOMORROW
DDM Friday (I’ll explain)Slide19
How the other half lived?
Jacob Riis – MuckrakerSlide20Slide21Slide22
Bandit’s RoostSlide23Slide24
Current Day Issues Poverty Slide25
HomelessSlide26
Civil Rights Slide27
Upton Sinclair
Wrote
The Jungle –
Tell all about Chicago meat packing plant“There would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white – It would be dosed with Borax and Glycerin, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for consumption…There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race upon it” Meat Inspection Act – Passed in
Response
Federal inspection of meat
Pure Food and Drug Act
– prohibited sale, manufacture, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled drugs or foodSlide28
Ida Tarbell
Muckraker – Wrote about Standard Oil (Rockefeller)
“
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless ... efficiency of organization.”Slide29
Progressivism Overview Video
Make a chart in your notebook that has 4 sections (
Women
, immigration, government corruption, and prohibition.)Slide30
Do Now: Why is the right to vote so important? Why do you think people are willing to sacrifice so much just to vote?
Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) identify key issues regarding women's rights (2) examine other key
issuesSlide31
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?Slide32
What was the tone of the time?
The following excerpts are from a letter written by Alexander Graham Bell to his wife on the topic of women’s rights. (1890)
Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist famous for creating a telecommunications system
“I was at Cambridge yesterday and your mother told me of a letter she had received from you on the subject of "Woman's Rights". I never suspected that you were one of these people who think women have rights. Do you actually suppose their wishes are to be considered with the same respect as those of men? That their opinions are entitled to the same weight? That -- when forced by circumstances to gain their livelihood -- they are to be permitted to choose their occupations as men are
?”
“The
wisdom of the world has decided that they are
inferior
beings
doomed to exist within the narrow space called "Woman's Sphere". Why then should they seek to rebel against the decrees of fate
?”Slide33
Women’s Suffrage (The Right to Vote)
There was a debate over the 14
th
and 15th amendment that split the suffrage movement in two: National Woman Suffrage Association (Led by Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony) – They wanted to pass a constitutional amendment allowing women’s suffrage
American Woman Suffrage Association
(Led by Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe) – They wanted to convince states to give women the right to vote first, before amending the constitution. Slide34
The Movement Gains Strength
1890 the two groups united (National American Woman Suffrage Association) – NAWA
Famous Women:
Alice Paul – Organized march on Washington, picketed White House, blocked sidewalks, and locked themselves to lamp postsJane Addams –
B
elieved women were responsible for cleaning up communities, and that people needed to share ‘mothers’ concerns
Carrie Chapman Catt
– Took over NAWA after Alice Paul leftSlide35
Women protested in many formsSlide36Slide37Slide38
Video on the movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
GjYtacfcgPUSlide39
19th Amendment
P
rohibits
any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sexSlide40
The power of the right to voteSlide41
Ticket to leave…
In your own words, how did women finally get the right to vote? Who was the most important women’s right’s activist? Slide42
Homework
Read the article on Women’s Suffrage and highlight/underline major details. Write a 1 paragraph summary. Slide43
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
explain
various other issues of the progressive era work collaboratively to explore commission plans and government efficiency
Do Now: Do you think our government runs efficiently? Why?Slide44
Commission Plans
The idea that a city’s government would be divided into sections under control of an expert
What was happening before?
What were some issues?What are the positives of a commission plan?Are there any negatives?Slide45
Partner Activity
Working with one other person in your area, create what you believe is the ‘commission plan’ for Peabody High School
Keep in mind all departments and sections of the school that are important to our daily life
Use the people in the school you know, and if you are unsure of their name, you can just write their titleSlide46
School Commission Plan
How does a system like this help the school?
Does it make sense?
Can you see any negatives? Slide47
Laboratory of Democracy
Robert La
Follette
(Wisconsin)Party bosses controlled the selection of convention delegates, and who could run for officeCreated direct
p
rimary
: What is it??
“Democracy is based upon knowledge…the only way to beat the boss is to keep the people thoroughly informed” Slide48
Other Reforms…
Initiative:
Citizens can introduce laws for representatives to vote on
Referendum: Allowed laws to be submitted to voters for approvalRecall: Voters could demand special election to remove an official17th Amendment
– Senators are elected by the peopleSlide49
In your own words…
How did the average person gain more power in the government? Slide50
America the Story of US: Cities
Many of the problems of the time came from cities
Fill in the chart as you watch…