THE AMERICAN DREAM: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND THE JUNGLEBrittany R. Clark

WARNING:TODAY’S LECTURE CONTAINS GROSS IMAGES.

RECAP: THE GILDED AGEHuge economic growth

Industry expanding into new areas

Mechanization of industry

Immigration boom

Industrial cities filled with working class people

THE PROGRESSIVE ERA (1890 – 1920)Widespread social activism and political reform

Laissez faire capitalism isn’t working out for everyone

Reform movements spring up:Labor unionsSherman Anti-Trust Act17th AmendmentWomen’s Suffrage

HEARST VS. PULITZEROpposing newspaper owners

Either would had a monopoly without the other

Who can sell more papers?

VS.

RAKING THE MUCKInvestigative journalism aimed at exposing the ills of society

Response to yellow journalism

Still used sensationalism

THE JUNGLE (1906)Dedicated to “The Workingmen of America”

In response, President Teddy Roosevelt:Passes the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act

Creates the Bureau of Chemistry – today called the Food and Drug Administration

Today we can see the worker’s rights issues

“I aimed for the public’s heart, and by accident hit it in the stomach.” – Upton Sinclair

IMPACT 2012 – ABC News does a report on the “pink slime” in processed beef

2011 and 2013 – Chipotle releases commercials demonstrating that they get their meat from organic farms2010 – Celebrity Chef

Jamie Oliver produces Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution