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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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?