GOAL SEVEN 7.01

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GOAL SEVEN7.01

• The Progressive Movement in the United States
• (1890-1914)
• The learner will analyze the economic, political,
  and social reforms of the Progressive Period.
  
• Explain the conditions that led to the rise of
  Progressivism.

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Muckraking

• A particular type of journalism that usually
  involved the exposing of power and corruption in
  American Government and Business. Name caught on
  after Theodore Roosevelt applied it to a group of
  writers who were responsible for exposing (among
  other things) filth in food processing,
  fraudulent advertising, political corruption, and
  other abuses through sensationalized accounts in
  such publications as Colliers.

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Ida Tarbell- (1857-1944)

• historian, journalist, and reformer. Tarbell
  became famous as a leading muckraker through her
  series of articles in McClure's magazine on
  political and corporate corruption. Her History
  of the Standard Oil Company (1904) led to the
  outlawing of monopolies in the United States. She
  also wrote biographies of Napoleon I and Abraham
  Lincoln, and an autobiography, All in the Day's
  Work (1929).

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Lincoln Steffens- (1866-1936)

• journalist, author, and reformer. As a leading
  muckraker and managing editor of McClure's
  magazine, Steffens exposed corruption in
  government, business, and labor during the early
  twentieth century. His articles appeared in book
  form as The Shame of the Cities (1906) and The
  Struggle for Self-Government (1906).

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Upton Sinclair- (1878-1968)

• novelist and social reformer. Sinclair is best
  known for his muckraking novel The Jungle (1906),
  which exposed conditions in the meatpacking
  industry in Chicago. Outrage fueled by the book
  led to reform legislation such as the Pure Food
  and Drug Acts. In 1934 he was narrowly defeated
  in his bid for governor of California as a
  Democrat with the slogan "EPICEnd Poverty in
  California." Sinclair helped establish the
  American Civil Liberties Union in the state. In
  1940 he launched a series of eleven novels about
  Lanny Budd. The third, Dragon's Teeth, about
  Hitler's rise to power, won the 1943 Pulitzer
  Prize for fiction.

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Jacob Riis- (1849-1914)

• Danish-born photographer, author, and social
  reformer. A muckraker, Riis published How the
  Other Half Lives (1890), which exposed the
  poverty and squalor of living conditions in New
  York City slums and led to corrective
  legislation. As a reporter for the New York
  Tribune and the New York Evening Sun, Riis
  documented slum conditions with his camera,
  campaigning for improvements in education, child
  labor laws, housing codes, and playground
  construction. Riis wrote twelve books, including
  his autobiography, The Making of an American
  (1901).

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Urban Slums

• a compact settlement with a collection of poorly
  built tenements, mostly of temporary nature,
  crowded together usually with inadequate sanitary
  and drinking water facilities in unhygienic
  conditions. Most of the time, these slums were
  occupied by poor immigrants.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire(March 25, 1911)

• tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, which
  led to improvements in job safety. A fire swept
  through the eighth floor of a factory in the
  Greenwich Village section of New York City,
  lasting thirty minutes. Because there were no
  fire escapes and exit doors were locked by
  management to keep the workers from stepping
  outside for a break, 146 workers, mostly young
  women, died.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire(March 25, 1911)

• Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, co-owners of the
  company, were indicted for first and second
  degree manslaughter. When they were acquitted,
  public outrage over the tragedy intensified and
  provoked demands for reform. The incident led to
  numerous new factory inspection laws and improved
  sanitary and safety conditions in industry. It
  also boosted the International Ladies Garment
  Workers Union, which had been formed in 1900.