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Title: Early Progressive Reformers


1
Early Progressive Reformers
  • Section 5.2

2
Todays Agenda
  • Current Events
  • 5.2 Slide Show
  • Presentations
  • Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Florence Kelly
  • Mother Jones
  • Homework
  • Quiz on Progressivism this Friday
  • 50 Points

3
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to
  • Identify
  • Walter Raschenbush and the Social Gospel
  • Florence Kelley
  • Mother Jones
  • Ida Tarbell
  • Define muckraker

4
Review Progressivism
  • How is reform different from revolution?
  • What is progressivism?
  • What was their philosophy?
  • Who was George Washington Plunkitt?
  • How did immigration change after 1890?
  • What problems did immigrants face?

5
Birth of Progressivism
6
How did Riis and Hine inform the public about the
ills of the Industrial Revolution?
7
Who were the muckrakers?
  • Investigative reporters who wanted to expose the
    dirt of the Industrial Revolution
  • Used careful research, vivid writing, moral
    outrage
  • McClure's, Colliers, Cosmopolitan
  • Attacked big business, corrupt political
    machines, even Churches that ran filthy tenements

8
Who was Ida Tarbell?
  • Muckraker who exposed the ruthless business
    practices of Standard Oil
  • Interviewed the director of S.O. for 2 years
  • 19 part series ran in McClures magazine
  • Led to breakup of Standard Oil as a trust in 1911

9
Muckrakers
10
What was the social gospel movement?
  • Religious movement which called on Christians to
    help the poor to overcome social problems
  • Be Christian by doing not just by praying
  • Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Hells Kitchen
  • Society, not man, is depraved
  • Competition of laissez-faire economics turns nice
    people into animals

11
Who was Florence Kelley?
  • Progressive activist concerned with child labor
  • Why are seals, bears, reindeer, fish , wild game
    all suitable for federal protection, but not
    children?
  • Secretary of National Consumers League
  • Identified products made by child labor or by
    workers in unsanitary conditions

12
Who was Mother Jones?
  • Mary Harris
  • radical progressive miners and children
  • Founder of the UMWA, Arnot, PA
  • Took textile mill job to check conditions
  • Childrens Crusade 1903
  • 300 children march 125-mile journey from
    Philadelphia to NYC
  • Detoured to Roosevelts Summer House
  • Made public speeches- Raised Awareness
  • Roosevelt refused to meet them
  • Public awareness, increased media coverage
  • "I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

13
What controversial issues do you think need to be
muckraked?
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