The Progressive
Movement
Many countries NOW need their own
Progressive Movement.
John Green Progressives Clip
Text book DVD Video in CLT folder
Study.com clip
and or Play Video Clip Jungle in Progressive Videos in SS Folder Progressives
Videos
Hw: Before and AFTER project
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“YourU.S.
Muckraker”
What was the
Progressive Movement?
A group of people AKA: Muckrakers/Reformers
asking for reform or change for a better way of
life. A reform is a fix by law.
What Needed to be fixed: problems caused by
BB/Immigration/Urbanization
Helped
create
laws to
protect
workers
and
children
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Negative Effects
of
Industrialization
SAFARI Montage chap. 2d A Nation in
Turmoil
Hine 2 "short version with captions"
Problem: Child Labor
If there be anything
hated by children
If there be anything
orphans can't avoid
It is child labor.
Child labor
The robber of our youth
The robber of our rights
You've done much harm
already
Please leave us alone.
By 1910, almost 2 million
children were working
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Who Activity # 1
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Problem: Child Labor
Solution/Fix by Law: Keating Owens
Act and later banned
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Unsafe working conditions
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Problem:
DDDD
Dark
Dirty
Dangerous
Death
SAFARI Montage chap. 3 A Nation in Turmoil
Activity Really Gross/ Really Bad
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 hyper link
EVENT VIDEO
Muckraker
HIS SOLUTION
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What Kind of Source?
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Low Wages about 10 cents a day
Workers worked long hours…
Sometimes 10 – 12 hours a day
Problem: Long hours
Little pay
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Who Activity # 2
Activity #2 Problem: Dangerous
Working Conditions
 Solutions/Fix by Law: Labor Unions,
the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat
Inspection Act
Directions: Read The Jungle and write down
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5 really Gross.
Read Triangle Shirt Fire and write down 5
Really Bad
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Rise of Organized Labor
SAFARI Montage chap. 2 Freedom A History of US: Working for Freedom
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What is a Labor Union ?
Formed by a
group of
workers to get
better salaries
and working
conditions from
their employers
They helped to get new laws made to
help the workers
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Example: The American Federation of
Labor (AFL)
founded in 1886;
used the power of skilled workers
Open
Samuel
Gompers
AFL
founder
SAFARI Montage
chap. 5 b Working
for Freedom: A
History of Us
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to skilled, white
men only
Fought for higher wages,
shorter work weeks
Fought for collective
bargaining or group
negotiations (both sides
labor and owners get
something)
Major tactic for
achieving goals was
strikes
Strikes-Weapon of Labor Unions
What is “On Strike” or a “Strike”?
SAFARI Montage chap. 6 A Nation in Turmoil
The union
members
stop working
until they
get better
salaries or
working
conditions
STRIKES: Hurt Big Business’ ability to
grow, but protected workers and
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made their
better.
One example of a labor strike:
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The Homestead Strike: In 1892 the workers at the
Carnegie steel factory in Pennsylvania went on
strike because the company lowered their wages or
salary… A small war was fought between the
company guards and the union members… The
strike lasted for months; the workers did not win.
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But…the workers won most other
strikes. After some time employers
learned to work together with union
leaders. United they Stand!
Explain or describe this cartoon
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Who Activity # 3 Remember
Boss Tweed?
Activity #3 Problem: Corruption in
Government
Solutions/Fix by Law: Secret Ballot,
17th Amendment, Recall
William "Boss" Tweed - Adventures in Justice
Directions: Get and Read Activity #3
Handout and answer the questions.
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Trust busting ended monopolies
hold on the consumer and created fair
business practices.
Problem: Trusts
and Monopolies
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Progressive Presidents do
their part
Roosevelt, Taft and
WILSON study.com
Presidents Help/Hurt
Fill in Chart using Videos
Safari Progressive Mv't chap 5
SAFARI Montage chap.6
SAFARI Montage chap. 7b
John Green Progressive
Presidents
See Also CLT Video Folder
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Who Activity # 4
Activity #4 Problem: Trusts and
Monopolies
Solution/Fix by Law: Progressive
Presidents
Trust/Monopoly Busting and Reforming
Directions: As you watch the video clips,
write down 3 main points about each
president.
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Progress is made study.com
1. Laws improved safety conditions
2. Reduced work hours-8 hours
3. Everyone received minimum wage or salary…
men, women, and children were all paid the same.
Men in the North--anywhere from $3.00/day for highly skilled laborers to
$1.25/day for unskilled workers.
Pay sufficient for people to survive if they worked full time, year-round.
Men in the South--$.75-$1.50/day in the South.
4. Lessened child labor, banned in the 1930’s.
5. Ended corruption of the political bosses
and took steps to end corruption at the local, state
and national levels with Election Laws.
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Elections Laws
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Eliminate the Power of political machines
with the secret ballot.
17th Amendment: the direct election of
senators. Bosses do not pick, who to vote
for.
Recall: Kicked out of office if not doing
job.
Referendum: People vote directly on a
new law.
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Notes: Effects of
Industrialization page 2
Problem: Alcohol abuse and
Women could not vote
During the Progressive Era there were many efforts
to change the laws
of the United States
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The
Temperance
Movement
Notes: page 3
Problem: Too Much
1. Composed of
groups opposed to
the
making and
consumption of
alcohol
2. Supported the 18th
Amendment
prohibiting the
manufacture, sale,
and
transport of
alcoholic beverages
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Who Activity # 5 and #6
Activity #5 Problem:
Alcohol Solution/Fix
by Law: 18th
Amendment
 Directions: Go to the
following website:
Activity #6 Problem: Alcohol
Solution/Fix by Law: 18th
Amendment
Slogans and Images
 Directions: Google Temperance
Movement Images. Write down
three slogans you find .
We had a Temperance
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/educators/lesson
plan/using-primary-sources-a-wide-open-town/
Movement in Loudoun County
Scroll to the Discussion Questions,  Directions: Check out the
copy them down.
website:
http://www.novahistory.org/Purc
Scroll to the Background, read it.
ellville_Rink/Purcellville_Roller_Ri
Scroll back to the Video, watch
nk.html
the video and answer the
Write down 5 thinks that were
questions.
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interesting to learn.
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18
AMENDMENT
UNEXPECTED RESULTS
EXPECTED RESULTS
Legitimate businesses
stopped selling
alcoholic beverages to
their customers…
Alcoholism declined
during this time…
Police and government
agents were in charge
of enforcing the new
law
Creation of the FBI
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People made their own
alcoholic beverages.
Gangsters, such as Al
Capone, made a fortune
by providing alcohol
that was smuggled in
from Canada and the
Caribbean
The Suffrage Movement helped women gain equal rights,
increased Educational opportunities.
Women gained the right to vote with the passage of the
19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States…
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Women had to suffer
and RAGE to get the
Vote and more equality
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Who Activity # 7
Activity #7 Problem: Suffrage
Amendment
Analyzing Video Sources
Solution/Fix by Law: 19th
Bad Romance Directions: Go to the following website
http://www.soomolearning.com/suffrage/ , watch the
video and check out the lyrics.
Explain the purpose of the video using lyrics from the song.
 Second to None Video Documentary Directions: Go to the
following website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAaqFdNZISI
Explain the purpose of the video using words from the video.
 School House Rock Directions: Go to the following website
http://www.mytowntutors.com/2013/06/school-houserock-sufferin-til-suffrage/, watch the video and listen to the
lyrics.
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Explain the purpose of the video
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John Green Suffrage
Sufferin’ Till Suffrage: School House Rock Video Clip
Second to None Episode #1
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Suffragettes
SAFARI Montage Not Ourselves Alone chap. 1
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Problem: No Voice
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1.
2.
3.
How did the reforms of
the Progressive
Movement change the
United States?
How did workers respond
to the negative effects of
industrialization?
So what?
What is important to
understand about this?
What were the reforms of
the Progressive
Movement? How did the
reforms of Women’s
Suffrage and the
Temperance Movement
change American lives?
4.
5.
What was the 18th
Amendment?
What was the 19th
Amendment?
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WHO
Activity #8
Progressive
Overview fill
in the blank
 Review:
study.com
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Jigsaw and Who Activity #9
Jigsaw
Muckrakers
“Who” Monthy
with the class
Activity #9 Who is the
Muckraker Reformer?
 Directions: Using your
Jigsaw on Muckrakers
complete the chart with
the names of the
Progressive Reformers.
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Who Activity # 10 and 11
Activity #10 and #11 Modern Problem
Muckraker:
 Directions: Think of a Modern Problem that exists today.
It may even be a problem that existed during the
Progressive Movement that is still a problem we are
working on today.
Modern Problem our Group Selected:
___________________ Approved by my teacher?
 Now, chose a Super hero Muckraker and a TV Hero to
solve the problem. Using your device Research your
Superhero and TV Hero and discover what they would
do to solve the problem your group has selected.
Complete the two organizers templates.
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Who Activity # 12
Activity #12 Child Labor Today
 Directions: View the Primary Sources and
gather information to complete your web.
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Watch the Video ILO Personal Stories:
ILO Personal Stories stop at 8 minutes 30
second.
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