■ Essential Question Essential Question : –How did problems in the Gilded Age contribute to “progressive” reforms in the early 20 th century? ■ Warm-Up Question: Warm-Up Question: –Use your notes & knowledge of U.S. history to create a list of problems that were created in the Gilded Age (1870- 1900) – Consider : Cities, Government, the West & South, Business
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■Essential QuestionEssential Question:–How did problems in the Gilded
Age contribute to “progressive” reforms in the early 20th century?
■Warm-Up Question:Warm-Up Question:–Use your notes & knowledge of
U.S. history to create a list of problems that were created in the Gilded Age (1870-1900)
–Consider: Cities, Government, the West & South, Business
■Progressives were people who wanted to strengthen American democracy and make life better for people.
■Most were Women
Urban Progressive Reformers
■Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago was a social service agency (called a settlement house) that provided help recent immigrants in
• English Language• Legal Rights• Home economics• Basic Medical care
Urban Slums
Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago
Urban Progressive Reformers■Urban reformers tried to improve
the lives of poor workers & children–YMCA created libraries & gyms
for young men & children –The Salvation Army created soup
kitchens & nurseries
Muckrakers ■Progressive reformers were aided
by a new, investigative journalism:–Muckrakers journalists
investigated and exposed political corruption, child labor, slum conditions, and other social issues
What did Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) expose?
Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) revealed Rockefeller’s unfair business practices & contributed to the government
breaking up monopolies
What did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) expose?
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) Told the story of immigrant workers