Chapter 2 – Social Reform Movement of the early-mid 1800’s

Temperance, Prison & Mentally ill, Education, Women’s Rights, Abolition

Chapter 5 – IndustrializationLaissez-Faire, Pro-business & Anti-union

Chapter 6 – Gilded Age Immigration and Industrialization led to

rise in poverty. How do we solve?

Chapter 8 The Progressive Movement

A time when many Americans tried to improve society.

Who were the Progressives?

• Democrats and Republicans• Educated• Middle Class• Journalists• Social Workers• Educators• Politicians• Clergy

The Muckrakers

• Investigative journalists who single-mindedly scraped up the filth on the ground, ignoring everything else. They were obsessed with scandal and corruption.

Progressive Movement Issues:Food Safety

The Jungle• “There would come all the way back from Europe

old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white – it would be dosed with borax (bleach) and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption…There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about (upon) it.”

Progressive Movement Issues:Women’s Suffrage

Progressive Movement Issues: Prohibition

Progressive Movement Issues:Child Labor

The Progressive Issues:Big Business

The Progressive Issues: Health and Safety Codes

Create Your Own Progressive Political Cartoon

• Choose one of the issues Progressives wanted to improve: Government, Big Business, Alcohol Consumption, Child Labor, Women’s Suffrage, Food and Medicine Safety, Health and Safety Codes. Read more about it in Chapter 8.

• Create a political cartoon from the perspective of a Progressive. You want to illustrate the problem in a way that convinces people that it needs to be fixed.

• Your cartoon should have a title and it should use a combination of symbolism, stereotypes, exaggerations, and opinions.

• Don’t make the point of your cartoon too easy to understand, make the viewer think about the message you are sending.

Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson

The Progressive PresidentsAssignment