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Chapter 15 and 16: Progressive Era Project
Objectives:
7.3 Recognize the progress of political and social reform in America during this era (i.e., Women's Suffrage, Regulation of food and drug, Initiative,
Referendum, and Recall, protection of workers' rights, Antitrust Supreme Court decisions, Muckrakers,).
7.6 Recognize the role of Tennessee in the women's suffrage movement. (i.e., "the perfect 36", Anne Dallas Dudley, Harry Burn, Governor Albert
Roberts).
Progressivism: group of reform movements of the late 1800s that focused on urban problems, the plight of workers, and corrupt political machines.
Key Questions: What was the progress of political and social reform in America during the Gilded Age?
Muckraker: Journalists who “raked up” and exposed corruption and problems in society.
Area of Progressive Reform
What was the problem? What Who were the reformers, and how What laws were passed to
were the causes of the problem? did they try to communicate their alleviate the problem? How
Provide evidence below.
message?
successful were the reforms?
What setbacks or failures did the
movement experience?
1. Urban Reform
Crowded living conditions
Jacob Riis-Danish photographer Tenement Act of 1901 force
“one room six adults five
published “How the Other Half landlords to install lighting in
children”
Lives” including pictures of public hallways, provide at least
Unsanitary tenements
urban life for the poor.
one toilet for every two families
“Squalor” “heaps of foul straw” Lillian Wald-Worked to expand Eventually outhouses banned in
“smell appalling”
health services to the poor
NY City.
Lack of plumbing
Death
rate
dropped
Presence of outhouses
dramatically
Poverty
Tenement Life
Crime
Tenement Life
Disease
Jacob Riis Photographs
2. Trust Busting
Ida Tarbell
“Trust Busting”
Big Corporations used unfair
and illegal methods to create
Monopolies and eliminate
competition
Amassed great wealth
Their “unchecked” power
Ida Tarbell wrote “A History of Theodore Roosevelt “Busted”
Standard Oil”
condemning the the Northern Securities Corp.
practices of Standard Oil Company
using the Sherman Anti-Trust
Act
President
Theodore
Roosevelt Elkins Act- prohibited Railroads
believed in regulating business and form accepting rebates
check misconduct
Hepburn Act Strengthened the
ICC
President Wilson urged congress to Sixteenth Amendment passed
pass the
Clayton Antitrust Act during Howard Taft’s presidency
establishing the FTC
allowing federal income tax
3. Political Reform
Political Machines
Progressive Reforms
4. Civil Rights
Segregation
Lynching
Divided South
African-American Reformers
5. Worker Protection
Work in the Late 19th Century
Labor Reform: Labor Day
6. Women’s Suffrage
Women’s Suffrage in the
Progressive Era
The Fight for Women’s
Suffrage
10 Suffragists Arrested
Tennessee’s Role
7. Temperance
Prohibition in the Progressive
Era
Prohibition
Prohibition
8. Environment
Conservation
John Muir
9. Consumer Protection
Upton Sinclair
Reform
Food and Drug Act