Agenda for 2/6

1. Practice MC and Short Answer Questions

2. Progressive Era Crash Course  
3. What problems arose during late 19^th cent?

·      Monopolies/trusts

·      Victims of industrialization

o   Women

o   Children

o   Immigrants

o   African Americans

·      Inefficiency/Disorganization - cities

·      Laissez-faire government – hands-off

·      Political/Economic Corruption – party bosses, spoils system

·      Social/economic injustice – how fair is society?

4. Progressive “Issues”

o   Silly              Socialism (anti)

o   Purple          Political machines (anti)

o   Turkeys        Trusts (anti)

o   Chase           Consumer protection

o   Very              Voting reform

o   White           Working/living conditions (incl. child labor)

o   C hickens    Conservation

o   W hile           Women’s Rights (suffrage)

o   Fighting        Federal Reserve System

o   Pink               Prohibition

o   Iguanas          Income Tax

5. Who were the Progressives (an umbrella term)

Origins of Reform (who were the progressives)

·      The “Progressive Umbrella”

·      Muckrakers (Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair)

·      Social Gospel (Salvation Army – gives reforms moral authority)

·      Settlement House Movement (Jane Addams – Hull House, Chicago – something can be done to improve lives/conditions)

·      Scientific/Enlightened Experts (Apply Taylorism (efficiency) and science to world’s problems – social)

·      New Middle Class “Professionals” (emphasis on edu, credentials, fairness)

·      Role of Women (allowed in field of social work, leadership roles in reform movements, society accepts “maternal” nature of women reformers – as long as they weren’t asking for absolute equality)

·      “New Woman” (less children, more free-time, longer lives, more education/economic opportunity, lives outside the home)

·      Women’s Clubs (wealthier upper/middle class, win reforms for working conditions, labor, food/drug safety, consumer protection - $$ and influence)

6. History of Reform in America

·      1^st Great Awakening (rel. reform) – 1730s/1740s

·      2^nd Great Awakening (rel. reform) – 1820-1840s

·      Antebellum Reform Movements (ATWEMPDW – PERSI reform) 1820-1860

·      Mugwumps (Pol/Econ reform) – 1880s

·      Populists (PES reform) – 1890s

·      Progressives (PERSIA) – 1890-1920
 
 HW

• Expansion DBQ  

• Read both the YES and NO articles of the "Did the Progressives Fail?" article.
• You should be prepared to answer that question in a quiz at the beginning of class on Tuesday. In your answer you will expected to take a side with a clear thesis statement, and use abundant historical evidence to support your POV. 
• You will be able to use any notes you take for the reading on the quiz, but will not be able to use the article itself.