essential question:How can progressive reforms fix

problems such as those seen in the Gilded Age? PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND

MUCKRAKING

When? related words:

description:

Progressive Era

about 1890 to WWI (1917)

the time of a movement for progress to correct the problems of the Gilded Age

A muckraker is someone who exposes problems in society

(term first emerges in Progressive Era)

McClure’s was the most

famous magazine for

muckrakers to publish

their investigative

reports.

consider:

How does the video affect the way that you think about the food that you eat?

Muckraking helps cause progressivism.

What do you think would result if everyone in America was exposed to this video?

This is a screenshot from a video shot by an undercover investigator from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals caught slaughterhouse workers allegedly viciously abusing pigs.

Progressivism is a belief in social progress through increased efficiency and government regulation.

the Social Gospel Movement (salvation through service to the poor) encouraged progressivism, asking “What would Jesus do?”

How can progressive reforms fix problems such as those seen in the

Gilded Age? PART 2: HOW REFORM OCCURS IN AMERICA

essential question:

How reform often occurs in the modern era:

PROBLEM

MUCKRAKING

PROGRESSIVISM: MANY PEOPLE USING THEIR POWER AS CITIZENS and/or

WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS USING THEIR TIME AND MONEY

REFORM

example using the video:

PROBLEM = animal abuse

MUCKRAKING = video

PROGRESSIVISM = citizens voting for politicians who will pass a law to end animal abuse and/or wealthy/powerful individual(s) lobbying politicians to pass a law against animal abuse

REFORM = law against animal abuse

Now, let’s consider how Gilded Age problems led to muckraking, then progressivism, then actual reform.

Complete the problem muckraking progressivism reform chain for the issue on your page.

Problem?

Muckraking?

Progressivism?

Reform?

Now we will organize according to what subject you had to create a poster for how the problem was addressed in America.

URBAN SLUMS (How the Other Half Lives)

URBAN SLUMS (settlement house movement)

GOVERNMENT (Thomas Nast)

GOVERNMENT (The Shame of the Cities)

LABOR AND INDUSTRY (Ida Tarbell and Lewis Hine)

LABOR AND INDUSTRY (Triangle Shirtwaist Fire)

WOMEN(suffrage)

ALCOHOL(prohibition)

Because these are especially important, you need to make sure you define these Progressive Era reforms:

prohibition (18th Amendment) = alcohol made illegal

women’s suffrage (19th Amendment) = women voting

Progressive Era Reforms ReviewOne common mnemonic device (memory tool) is creating an acrostic. This is done by memorizing the first letter of each word in a phrase. Ideally, the first letters will form a real word or name, but may also form a nonsensical word. An example is below. Create two others based on the muckraking reformers of the Progressive Era. It is usually easiest to start by making a statement.example:

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Jacob Riis exposed tenements in How the Other Half Lives, read often.