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Title: Robert La Follette


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Robert La Follette
  • Senator from Wisconsin
  • Battlin Bob
  • Whats up with the fist pump?
  • Wealthy?

2
Workers
  • What does this cartoon represent?
  • Who is it?

3
Fighting Bob
4
Legacies
Reformers
Problems
  • Square Deal
  • Clayton Antitrust Act
  • Teddy Roosevelt
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Robert La Follette
  • Poor Working Conditions
  • Consumer Fraud
  • Trusts and monopolies
  • Political corruption
  • Environmental destruction

5
Ida Tarbell
  • Muckraker?
  • What do you think she did? Why?
  • Does she like Industrialists? Why?

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Legacies
Reformers
Problems
  • The Jungle
  • Muckrakers
  • Ida Tarbell
  • Lincoln Steffens
  • Jacob Riis
  • Lewis Hine
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Ills of industrialization
  • Sickening conditions

8
Coal Boy
  • Describe him.
  • How old?
  • Does he work, or go to school?
  • What should he do? Why?
  • Who protects him?

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Legacies
Reformers
Problems
  • Coal Minors Strike
  • Department of Commerce and Labor
  • President Roosevelt
  • Long work days/weeks
  • No minimum wage
  • Unsafe
  • Workmans comp
  • No Pension plans
  • Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire

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  • What do you think these women are doing? Why?

14
Legacies
Reformers
Problems
  • Soldiers eating tainted meat during Spanish
    American-War
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • President Roosevelt
  • Unsanitary conditions
  • No govt regulations in canning industry

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16
Bear
  • Mr. McClelland does not have one of these at
    home? But I could make one!!!!

17
Teddy R
  • What do these pictures say about Teddy?

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Teddy and the Train
  • What does this cartoon say about Teddy Roosevelt?
  • What is the artists intention?
  • How does it reflect progressive attitude?

20
  • Who is the Guy laughing?
  • The guy on the couch?
  • What is this cartoon depicting?

21
Legacies
Reformers
Problems
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • Federal Trade Commission Act
  • Clayton Antitrust Act
  • President Roosevelt
  • President Woodrow Wilson
  • Monopolies
  • Trusts
  • Irresponsible use of power

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23
Suffrage
  • What amendment gave women the right to vote?
  • Why are Progressives concerning themselves with
    this?

24
Legacies
Reformers
Problems
  • Direct election of Senators
  • 19th Amendment
  • National Womens Social and Political Union
  • Political corruption
  • Political Machines
  • Patronage system

25
John Muir
  • Who is John Muir?
  • What are him and Teddy doing? Why?
  • What affect did industrialization have on natural
    resources

26
  • Where do you think these men are standing?
  • Do their cloths look like something you would
    wear to go outside?
  • What is behind them?

27
Legacies
Reformers
Problems
  • Preserved huge tracts of land
  • Teddy Roosevelt
  • John Muir
  • Industry corruption natural landscape
  • Over Foresting

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W.E.B DU BOIS
  • What do you think this man fought for? Why?
  • Is he a progressive thinker? Why?
  • Why didnt Progressives fight for civil rights
    for blacks?
  • What formal group do you think he was associated
    with?

30
Legacies
Reformers
Problems
  • 6,000 members by 1914
  • Fought for anti-lynching laws
  • National Association for the Advancement of
    Colored People
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Blacks were seen as inferior to whites

31
PROGRESSIVES
reserved Americas timberland
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