Progressive Era #1

The Progressive Movement/Era

was between 1900-1920 (approx.)
and addressed the political,
economic and social problems
that stemmed from
industrialization, and intense
urbanization.

Multiple Choice

What was so bad during the Gilded Age that a whole movement was created to address it?

• The rise of corruption, economic inequality, and poor working conditions.
• The rise of environmental awareness, addressing sexism and stamping out racism.

• The invention of new technologies, radical ideas and taking scientific risk.

• The expansion of the middle class, created by better wages and treatment.

I. Origins and Goals

A. Roots of the Progressive
movement evolved from the
Populists movement.

1. Populist movement

addressed mostly rural
issues.

2. Progressives addressed

mostly urban issues.

3. Both movements
lobbied for a more
hands on government.

Hotspot

The issue addressed in this political cartoon was later settled by the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Label one piece of evidence that support this statement.

B. Key Goals of Progressives:

1. Wanted continued regulation of

the economy.

2. Elimination of political corruption
3. Limit the power of big business.
4. Wanted government protection of

human welfare.

5. Help the poor.

Which of the following government actions was already in place at the turn of
the 20th century?

Multiple Choice

How were the Populists and Progressives similar?

• The Populists and Progressives both opposed government intervention in the economy.
• The Populists focused solely on agricultural issues while Progressives targeted urban problems.
• The Populists were primarily a Republican movement, while Progressives were Democrats.
• The Populists and Progressives both aimed for social and economic reforms to benefit the common people.

II. Key Groups Pushing For Reform

A. Labor movement worked to change:

1. work hours
2. wages
3. working conditions

What were the two major labor unions during the Gilded
Age?

B. Socialist:

1. wanted to end capitalism
2. more equal distribution of wealth.
3. governmental control of the

economy and political system.

What major aspect of modern Socialism do many
people not agree with today?

1. Goal was (and is) to
ensure social and
political equality and
protection for People of
Color.
2. NAACP fought (& still
fights) via the court
system.

C. NAACP-National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/naacp#foundin
g-of-the-naacp

Multiple Choice

What is the goal of the NAACP?

• To support only one racial group over others.
• To focus solely on environmental issues.
• To eliminate racial discrimination and ensure equality for all.
• To promote economic inequality among races.

D. Robert La Follete:

1. Trailblazing Governor of

Wisconsin

a. One of the first to implement

prog. reforms:

1.direct primary
2. labor legislation
3. corporate regulation, etc.

E. Temperance Movement pushed to
outlaw alcohol

a. believed it to be the root of

most of the problems of society.

b. Historical achievement will be

the eventual passing of the 18th
Amendment.

https://youtu.be/WPczGnA7k9A?si=bNn12QwNF
sTsrEtn

F. Suffragette Movement

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are
created equal……. —Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of
Sentiments (1848)

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-figh
t-for-womens-suffrage

https://www.history.com/news/suffragists-
vote-black-women

Multiple Choice

The Temperance Movement will accomplish their goal with the passage of the

• 18th Amendment
• Prohibition Act
• 16th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

1. Collective movement began in
1848, in Seneca Falls.

a. worked to get women the

right vote.

b. Historical achievement

will be the passing of the
19th amendment.

Multiple Choice

A goal set at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

was achieved during the Progressive Era by the

• 19th Amendment (1920)
• Voting Rights Act (1965)
• Civil Rights Act (1964)
• Equal Rights Amendment (1972)

Multiple Choice

Which caption best replaces the question mark in this photograph?

• Abolish the Poll Tax and the Literacy Test

• Demand the Direct Election of Senators

• Come in and Learn Why Women Ought to Vote

• Lower the Voting Age for Women to Eighteen

Multiple Choice

The "Holy War" illustrated in the cartoon was an effort to

• Ban the sale of alcoholic beverages

• Recruit women soldiers

• Promote world peace

• Spread Christian religious beliefs

G. Muckrakers: investigative journalists,
photographers, authors, etc., who worked to
expose society's problems.

Which of the following would have taken the most offense over
the scathing practices that Muckrakers were exposing?

“Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch
from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth
on the floor and it must be scraped up with the
muck-rake; and there are times and places where this
service is the most needed of all the services that can
be performed.”

Which of the following Presidents delivered this
speech in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1906?

a.

Nelly Bly: she was one of the first investigative
journalists. She published an expose on the state of
mental health facilities by getting herself committed
for 10 days. Her experience, which she wrote about,
resulted in more funding and oversite over patient
treatment...1887.

1. Notable muckrakers:

b. Jacob Riis: photographer-exposed slum life
in 1890

How were pictures used to push for social change?

c. Theodore Dreiser: author – wrote about
life in the industrial era...1900.

d. Frank Norris was an author who wrote a

book on railroad corruption in 1901

e. Ida Tarbell: was a journalist who exposed
Standard Oil’s ruthless practices in 1904.

f. Lincoln Steffens: was a journalist who wrote
Shame of the Cities, which exposed the
corruption of political machines and how
they controlled major cities.

g. Lewis Hines used his camera to shed light
on the horrors of child labor.

1. The work of activist, helped by the pictures taken

by Lewis Hines, will help address child labor.

** compulsory education will be one of

the results….if they’re not working
at a young age, at least they’re in
school and not running the streets.

***by 1918, every state made an elementary

education compulsory.

Multiple Choice

What would kids spend the money they got from the factories?

• Junk food, toys for younger siblings, parties, music instruments.

• Movies, amusement parks, skates, bicycles, etc.

• Games, toys, brownie cameras, clothes

• Rent, Water, and anything else that helped the family.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following BEST explains  the mental impact of child labor?

• children were losing limbs and lives
• children did not get an education
• children did not have any social skills
• children were working long hours

h. Upton Sinclair: journalist/author –
working conditions/corporate greed

1. Wrote The Jungle (1906) –expose

on the working conditions meatpacking
industry.

How were Nelly Bly and Sinclair similar in how they investigated their stories?

b. Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

1. Required ingredients be listed on

containers

2. outlawed patent medicines

Look at the toothache drops…..why do you think this
“medicine” was outlawed?

2. Resulted in immediate public/
government response:

a. Meat Inspection Act (1906)

Why was there immediate change after Upton
Sinclair outed the meatpacking industry?

Multiple Choice

A common goal of Lincoln Steffens, Frank

Norris, and Ida Tarbell was to

• promote industrialization and economic growth
• advocate for increased military spending
• expose corruption and promote reform
• support isolationism and non-intervention

Multiple Choice

The actions of muckrakers in the late 19th

century and early 20th century resulted in

• Decreased public interest and economic stagnation.
• Increased government censorship and media control.
• A decline in investigative journalism and public trust.
• Increased public awareness and progressive reforms.

Multiple Choice

Books such as The Octopus by Frank Norris,

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, and

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair exposed

problems associated with

• economic prosperity in the 20th century
• the benefits of industrialization
• the rise of modern technology
• social issues and injustices in society