Robert La Follette

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Robert La Follette

• Senator from Wisconsin
• Battlin Bob
• Whats up with the fist pump?
• Wealthy?

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Workers

• What does this cartoon represent?
• Who is it?

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Fighting Bob
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Legacies
Reformers
Problems

• Square Deal
• Clayton Antitrust Act

• Teddy Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• Robert La Follette

• Poor Working Conditions
• Consumer Fraud
• Trusts and monopolies
• Political corruption
• Environmental destruction

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Ida Tarbell

• Muckraker?
• What do you think she did? Why?
• Does she like Industrialists? Why?

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Legacies
Reformers
Problems

• The Jungle

• Muckrakers
• Ida Tarbell
• Lincoln Steffens
• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hine
• Upton Sinclair

• Ills of industrialization
• Sickening conditions

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Coal Boy

• Describe him.
• How old?
• Does he work, or go to school?
• What should he do? Why?
• Who protects him?

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Legacies
Reformers
Problems

• Coal Minors Strike
• Department of Commerce and Labor

• President Roosevelt

• Long work days/weeks
• No minimum wage
• Unsafe
• Workmans comp
• No Pension plans
• Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire

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• What do you think these women are doing? Why?

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Legacies
Reformers
Problems

• Soldiers eating tainted meat during Spanish
  American-War
• Pure Food and Drug Act

• President Roosevelt

• Unsanitary conditions
• No govt regulations in canning industry

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Bear

• Mr. McClelland does not have one of these at
  home? But I could make one!!!!

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Teddy R

• What do these pictures say about Teddy?

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Teddy and the Train

• What does this cartoon say about Teddy Roosevelt?
• What is the artists intention?
• How does it reflect progressive attitude?

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• Who is the Guy laughing?
• The guy on the couch?
• What is this cartoon depicting?

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Legacies
Reformers
Problems

• Federal Trade Commission
• Federal Trade Commission Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act

• President Roosevelt
• President Woodrow Wilson

• Monopolies
• Trusts
• Irresponsible use of power

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Suffrage

• What amendment gave women the right to vote?
• Why are Progressives concerning themselves with
  this?

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Legacies
Reformers
Problems

• Direct election of Senators
• 19th Amendment

• National Womens Social and Political Union

• Political corruption
• Political Machines
• Patronage system

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John Muir

• Who is John Muir?
• What are him and Teddy doing? Why?
• What affect did industrialization have on natural
  resources

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• Where do you think these men are standing?
• Do their cloths look like something you would
  wear to go outside?
• What is behind them?

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Legacies
Reformers
Problems

• Preserved huge tracts of land

• Teddy Roosevelt
• John Muir

• Industry corruption natural landscape
• Over Foresting

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W.E.B DU BOIS

• What do you think this man fought for? Why?
• Is he a progressive thinker? Why?
• Why didnt Progressives fight for civil rights
  for blacks?
• What formal group do you think he was associated
  with?

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Legacies
Reformers
Problems

• 6,000 members by 1914
• Fought for anti-lynching laws

• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People
• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Blacks were seen as inferior to whites

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PROGRESSIVES
reserved Americas timberland