Warm Up1. What are some problems facing

American cities during the growth of cities?

2. What are some problems facing American cities TODAY?

3. What goal are you MOST uncomfortable with for the midterm?

THE PROGRESSIVE ERA1900-1920

I. THE ROOTS OF PROGRESSIVISM

MOVEMENTS THAT LED TO

PROGRESSIVISM

NEW INTEREST IN

THE POOR

SOCIAL GOSPEL

CHARITY

SETTLEMENT HOUSES

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

GOOD GOVERNMENT

I. ROOTS OF PROGRESSIVISMMajority-

urban middle class

I. THE ROOTS OF PROGRESSIVISM Problems in America

#1 Problem…SLUMS:

Tenement Housing:

I. ROOTS OF PROGRESSIVISM #2 Problem

DISEASES:

1.

2.

3.

2. TUBERCULOSIS Known as "TB" or the

"White Plague.” As the disease worsened,

its victims became pale in skin color

Spread from person to person by the inhalation of airborne germs from coughs or sneezes.

At the time, there was no cure and its victims often died.

3. INFLUENZA

II. THE MEDIA SAVES? Muckrakers:

Frank Norris: The Octopus

II. THE MEDIA SAVES? Muckrakers:

Frank Norris: The Octopus

Upton Sinclair: The Jungle

“…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 home consumption. There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it. It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together… the meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one – there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit.”

II. THE MEDIA SAVES? Muckrakers:

Frank Norris: The Octopus

Upton Sinclair: The Jungle

Ida Tarbell: vs. John D. Rockefeller

Lincoln Steffens: Shame of the Cities

RANDOM REVIEW WARM-UP YAY!!! Who is Thomas Nast? Who does he “attack”?

What labor union was made up primarily of skilled workers?

Where was the Nullification Crisis?

What happened in Nevada?

Where did the CW end?

What was a negative impact of the Haymarket Riot?

AMENDMENTS! 16th Amendment

17th Amendment

AMENDMENTS! 18th Amendment

AMENDMENTS! 19th Amendment