Progressive Links
We’ve received some anonymous tips from the good citizens of the United States. Perhaps some of these will help you “rake
your muck!”
 Living in the Slums
o Urban Experience in Chicago http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/
o The Good Work of Jane Addams http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgibin/page.cgi/aa/activists/addams/work_1
o Opportunities at Hull House http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/addams/piano_1
o How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
o Jacob Riis Photographs
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/davis/photography/images/riisphotos/slideshow1.html
 Corruption in the government
o Political Machines http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580670/political_machines.html
o Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall Machine http://www.albany.edu/~dkw42/tweed.html
o Immigrants and Big City Machine Politics http://www.albany.edu/~dkw42/s1_immigrants.html
o Thomas Nast on Tammany Hall http://greatcaricatures.com/articles_galleries/nast/html/02_nast.html *you’ll
need to scroll and look for relevant ones
o Mayors Hazen Pingree of Detriot, Michigan
o Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_L._Johnson
o Robert “Fighting Bob” M. LaFollette of Wisconsin http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlafollette.htm
o The initiative, referendum and the recall
http://www.ccsf.edu/Resources/VOICE/instructorslessonplans/individualrights/voting/initiative.pdf
o Seventeenth Amendment http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am17
 Big business and trust busting
o Trusts and monopolies cartoon http://encarta.msn.com/media_701610548_761560703_-1_1/AntiMonopoly_Sentiment.html
o Trusts and monopolies http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761560703/Trust_(monopoly).html
o Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party http://www.eugenevdebs.com/pages/political.html
o Trust-busting http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h951.html
o Ida Tarbell and the Rockefellers http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_tarbell.html
o Ida Tarbell http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jtarbell.htm
o The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) http://www.stolaf.edu/people/becker/antitrust/statutes/sherman.html
o The Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) http://www.stolaf.edu/people/becker/antitrust/statutes/clayton.html
o Interstate Commerce Act http://www.usnews.com/usnews/documents/docpages/document_page49.htm
o Pittsburgh: A City Ashamed http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/steffens.html
 Child labor
o Child labor http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html
o Child Labor Public Education Project
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html
o Child Labor Reform Exhibits http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/special/child/childlabor.htm
o National Child Labor Committee http://www.kapow.org/nclc.htm
o Keating-Owen Act (1916) http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=59
o Photographs of Lewis Hine http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
o Florence Kelley on the need for child labor laws
http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/americans05/resources/pdfs/psource/TAS03_17_513_PS.pdf
 Labor reform
o Efforts to limit working hours in Muller v. Oregon
o Upton Sinclar’s The Jungle http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/ap/Progressives/JungleEx.htm
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair/TheJungle/
Scientific Management (or Taylorism)
http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/americans05/resources/pdfs/psource/TAS03_17_514a_PS.pdf
o Inside an American Factory http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html
o The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire http://newdeal.feri.org/library/d_4m.htm
o Triangle Factory Fire http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
o Poem by a Factory Girl http://texasliberal.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/poem-by-a-factory-girl-working-in-19thcentury-textile-mill/
Women’s rights
o A History of American Sweatshops http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/145
o Women’s Roles in the Late 19th century http://www.connerprairie.org/historyonline/1880wom.html
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Florence Kelley http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWkelley.htm
The Illinois Factory Act of 1893 (or the 10-hour Law) http://www.jstor.org/pss/1820927
A Short History http://www.legacy98.org/move-hist.html
Declaration of Sentiments http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.html
Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/third.html
Working Hours of Women in Factories http://www.tenant.net/Community/LES/hours10.html
The 19th Amendment (1920) http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm
National American Woman Suffrage Association
http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/suffrage/nawsa.html
o US v. Susan B. Anthony
http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/americans05/resources/pdfs/psource/TAS03_17_522_PS.pdf
Food and drug regulation
o Upton Sinclar’s The Jungle http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/ap/Progressives/JungleEx.htm
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o The Meat Packing Act (1906) http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h918.html
o Pure Food and Drug Act http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h917.html
o Hall’s Hair Renewer Ads http://www.hairraisingstories.com/OtherPages/HALL_HR_IMAGES.html
o Milestones in US Food and Drug Law http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/miles.html
o The Meatpacking Industry http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/804.html
African Americans at the turn of the 20th century
o Ray Stannard Baker: What is a lynching? http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JbakerR.htm *scroll down
o Ray Stannard Baker: Following the Color Line http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JbakerR.htm *scroll
down
o Jim Crow Laws http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm
o Lynching http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlynching.htm
o The History of Jim Crow http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/
o NAACP http://www.naacp.org/home/index.htm
o Images of African Americans from the 19th century
o Plessy v. Ferguson http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/plessy/plessy.html
o Jim Crow Laws http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories.html