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THE SPIRIT OF
The Progressive Movement
THE SPIRIT OF REFORM:
REFORMING THE ECONOMIC , POLITICAL AND SOCIAL S ITUATIONS ACROSS THE
COUNTRY.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
� Upton Sinclair wrote the novel The Jungle. This book opened the eyes of the meat packing industry to the citizens of the United citizens of the United States.
� What did this book do for the food industry?
Food and Drug Act is created.
� The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided for
� federal inspection of meat products, forbade the manufacture, products,
� forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products or poisonous patent medicines
� Why is the Pure Food and Drug Act important to us in 2010?
Harvey W. Wiley
Reform:
� 1. What occurs during the Progressive Era?
� 2. Name two men who change the way we live our lives in America and what they reformed.
Child Labor…
The Mill
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Newsies
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The Miners 1
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Look at the child labor pictures…
� On a separate sheet of paper label each picture, then number the pictures.
� 1. Explain what is happening in the picture
� 2. Create a reform measure to combat the child labor in the picture.in the picture.
Child Labor Reform
� Progressive Florence
Kelley worked to stop child labor.
Kids received 40 cents a � Kids received 40 cents a day averages to $2.60
Temperance Movement
� Leads to crime and poverty
� True or False?
� WCTU
� Women’s Christian Temperance UnionTemperance Union
� Fought against alcohol
� 18th Amendment
� Outlawed the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the US
Carry Nation
Suffrage Movement� The fight for WOMEN to VOTE!!
� NAWSA
� National American Women Suffrage Assoc.
� 19th Amendment
� Gave women the right to vote in the United States
� Why not let them vote???
� Political bosses afraid women would fight corruption.
� Women belong in the home.
Question…Women
� 1. Name two women reformers and what they reformed.
� 2. Why was it hard for women to get the right to vote?
3. What amendment allowed women the right to � 3. What amendment allowed women the right to vote?
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