Progressive Era Intro

1900 ,[object Object],[object Object]

100 years… 1900 2008 US population 76 million 305,260,787 million Median Age 23 35.3 Average weekly earnings $9.60 $611.90 marriages 709,000 2.2 million divorces 55,751 1,169,000 (1998) # of farms 5.7 million 2,076,000

My how things have changed… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

In 1901 the average American male… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What did Americans spend? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],*adjusted for inflation (2007)

“ What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” Ladies Home Journal , December 1900 ,[object Object]

In 1900, America was prosperous (for some…) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Progressive Era ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Progressives ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Muckrakers – journalists who wrote about corrupt side of business and public life in mass magazines ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Lewis Hine – Crusade Against Child Labor ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Boy Lost Arm Running Saw in Box Factory

[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Spindle boys – climbed atop moving machinery to replace parts

Jacob Riis ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

"Minding the Baby" (ca. 1898),

Jacob A. Riis, Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters , c. 1880s

Using your notes from Monday, complete this web in your notebook. Progressive GOALS Social Welfare Economic reform Efficiency (govt., industry) Moral improvement

4. Efficiency in Industry ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

4. (cntd.) Cleaning Up Government ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Local Govt. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Reform @ the State Level ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Election Reform ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Image Courtesy of: http://67degrees.com

Election Reform ,[object Object],[object Object],Image Courtesy of: www.wku.edu

Women and the Election of 1912 ,[object Object]

Dark Side of the Progressive Era:The American Eugenics Movement

Progressive Era Intro

Empfohlen

Empfohlen

Weitere ähnliche Inhalte

Was ist angesagt?

Was ist angesagt? (19)

Ähnlich wie Progressive Era Intro

Ähnlich wie Progressive Era Intro (15)

Mehr von Melissa

Mehr von Melissa (20)

Progressive Era Intro