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I. The Rise of the Progressive Era (1890-1920)
A.
* Progressive Era
* solve social and economic
1. *What problems existed in the Gilded Age?*
* (This is a question prompt, but the answer usually involves: political corruption, poor working conditions, poverty, and unchecked corporate power).
2. Industrialization led to a rise in urbanization, immigration, poverty, and dangerous working conditions.
3. City, state, and federal governments were seen as corrupt.
4. Corporate monopolies (or trusts) limited competition and workers’ rights (or wages).
B. The Social Gospel Movement
1. In the 1880s, many middle-class Protestant ministers (or clergy) embraced the Social Gospel movement.
2. The Social Gospel reform society taught that to honor God, people must help others and improve society.
C. Urban Reformers
1. Progressive reform began in American cities in response to slums, disease (or sanitation), child labor, domestic abuse, prostitution, and political corruption in Chicago.
2. An early reformer was Jane Addams who created Hull House.
a. Hull House was the first settlement house, which offered baths, cheap food, child care, education (or classes), health care to help the poor.
b. Jane Addams' efforts inspired reformers in other cities to build settlement houses to assist the immigrants (or poor).
3. Urban reformers tried to improve the lives of the poor (or immigrants) and children.
a. The YMCA created gyms (or recreational centers) and libraries to help young men and children.
b. The YWCA created nurseries and public kitchens.
c. Women reformers fought to create child labor laws and laws limiting women to a 10 hour day.
4. Many reformers saw alcohol abuse as serious problem.
a. Temperance reformers hoped that ending alcohol would reduce corruption, crime, assimilate immigrants.
b. Reformers Frances Willard and Carrie Nation led the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) to fight for prohibition laws.
c. Reformers gained prohibition laws in local areas and states in the South and West.
d. In 1919, the states ratified the 18th Amendment which outlawed alcohol (or the manufacture and sale of liquor) throughout the USA.
D. Investigative Journalists known as Muckrakers exposed corruption, poverty, health hazards, and monopolies.
1. Jacob Riis
a. *What did Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives (1890) expose?*
* It exposed the terrible living conditions of the poor in New York City tenements.
b. Jacob Riis’ *How the Other Half Lives* (1890) exposed urban poverty (or slums) and life in the tenements.
2. Ida Tarbell
a. *What did Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) expose?*
* It exposed the unfair and illegal business practices used by John D. Rockefeller to destroy competitors.
b. Ida Tarbell’s *The History of Standard Oil* (1904) revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices and called for the breakup (or regulation) of large corporations (or monopolies/trusts).
3. Upton Sinclair
a. *What did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) expose?*
* It exposed the unsanitary and disgusting conditions in the meatpacking industry.
b. Upton Sinclair’s *The Jungle* (1906) revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses and led to government regulation (or inspection) of food (or meatpacking) industries.
I. The Rise of the Progressive Era (1890-1920)
A.
* Progressive Era
* solve social and economic
1. *What problems existed in the Gilded Age?*
* (This is a question prompt, but the answer usually involves: political corruption, poor working conditions, poverty, and unchecked corporate power).
2. Industrialization led to a rise in urbanization, immigration, poverty, and dangerous working conditions.
3. City, state, and federal governments were seen as corrupt.
4. Corporate monopolies (or trusts) limited competition and workers’ rights (or wages).
B. The Social Gospel Movement
1. In the 1880s, many middle-class Protestant ministers (or clergy) embraced the Social Gospel movement.
2. The Social Gospel reform society taught that to honor God, people must help others and improve society.
C. Urban Reformers
1. Progressive reform began in American cities in response to slums, disease (or sanitation), child labor, domestic abuse, prostitution, and political corruption in Chicago.
2. An early reformer was Jane Addams who created Hull House.
a. Hull House was the first settlement house, which offered baths, cheap food, child care, education (or classes), health care to help the poor.
b. Jane Addams' efforts inspired reformers in other cities to build settlement houses to assist the immigrants (or poor).
3. Urban reformers tried to improve the lives of the poor (or immigrants) and children.
a. The YMCA created gyms (or recreational centers) and libraries to help young men and children.
b. The YWCA created nurseries and public kitchens.
c. Women reformers fought to create child labor laws and laws limiting women to a 10 hour day.
4. Many reformers saw alcohol abuse as serious problem.
a. Temperance reformers hoped that ending alcohol would reduce corruption, crime, assimilate immigrants.
b. Reformers Frances Willard and Carrie Nation led the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) to fight for prohibition laws.
c. Reformers gained prohibition laws in local areas and states in the South and West.
d. In 1919, the states ratified the 18th Amendment which outlawed alcohol (or the manufacture and sale of liquor) throughout the USA.
D. Investigative Journalists known as Muckrakers exposed corruption, poverty, health hazards, and monopolies.
1. Jacob Riis
a. *What did Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives (1890) expose?*
* It exposed the terrible living conditions of the poor in New York City tenements.
b. Jacob Riis’ *How the Other Half Lives* (1890) exposed urban poverty (or slums) and life in the tenements.
2. Ida Tarbell
a. *What did Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) expose?*
* It exposed the unfair and illegal business practices used by John D. Rockefeller to destroy competitors.
b. Ida Tarbell’s *The History of Standard Oil* (1904) revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices and called for the breakup (or regulation) of large corporations (or monopolies/trusts).
3. Upton Sinclair
a. *What did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) expose?*
* It exposed the unsanitary and disgusting conditions in the meatpacking industry.
b. Upton Sinclair’s *The Jungle* (1906) revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses and led to government regulation (or inspection) of food (or meatpacking) industries.
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