History Assignment
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for_qn_1-progressive_era._pptx.pptxINDUSTRIALIZATION, IMMIGRATION, URBANIZATION
American Farm Scenes #3 Currier and Ives 1853 (Frances Palmer)
Immigrants in the 19th century arrive from: England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria-Hungary, Canada and Newfoundland, Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Lithuania), Southern Europe (Italy, Greece), China
Source: MIT Center for International Studies
US Urban Population as a % of Total Population: 1800 less than 10%; 1870 roughly 20%; 1900 roughly 35%; 1930 over 50%
“My sister was age 25. She worked with me on the 9th floor as an examiner. During the time we were running around to get out I kept hollering for her but I could not find her for even a minute. . . . The people began to throw themselves out of the windows. All the machines were bubbling with flames. . . . I went to the window I made the sign of the cross and was ready to jump but I didn't have the courage. . . . I lost my sister in that fire and I know the door was locked. ” --Anna Pidone, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire survivor
[skyscrapers are an] ‘‘abnormality, which has its genesis partly in human vanity and the desire to dazzle and surprise, and partly in the desire to realize as much rental as possible on an extravagantly valued plot of ground.’’ This ‘‘monster’’ was ‘‘menacing to comfort and safety.’’
--National Fire Protection Association, 1927
Koehler, 20th c.
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
MAJOR CONFLICTS
IS THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM POSSIBLE IN A DEMOCRACY? WILL RAPID WEALTH PRODUCTION ERODE DEMOCRACY?
HOW WILL IMMIGRANTS ALTER AMERICAN CULTURE? CAN IMMIGRANTS BE INCLUDED WITHOUT POLITICAL CORRUPTION?
HOW CAN CITIES BE MADE SAFE?
Progressive Era: Government Reform
1887 Interstate Commerce Act passed
1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed
1901 McKinley assassinated—Roosevelt assumes presidency
1901 United Mine Workers strike—Roosevelt arbitrates
1902 Ida Tarbell’s History of the Standard Oil Company published
1904 Northern Securities Co. v. U.S.—trust-busting begins
1904 Roosevelt elected
1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle published
1906 Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act passed
1908 Taft elected
1911 Standard Oil v. United States
1912 Roosevelt runs as Bull-Moose Party candidate
1912 Wilson elected
1913 16th Amendment—income tax
1913 17th Amendment—Direct election of Senators
1913 Federal Reserve created
1914 Federal Trade Commission created
1916 Wilson re-elected, “He kept us out of war”
1919 18th Amendment—Prohibition
1920 19th Amendment—Women’s Suffrage
Progressive Era: Labor Reform
1888 Department of Labor created
1901 United Mine Workers strike—Roosevelt arbitrates
1905 Lochner v. New York—Supreme Court upholds “free contract” and refuses to
limit working hours
1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle published
1908 Muller v. Oregon—Supreme Court upholds max working hour law for women
1914 Clayton Anti-Trust Act—exempts unions from anti-trust laws
1916 Keating-Owen Act—limits child labor
Progressive Era: Civil Rights Reform
1889 Jane Addams opens Hull House in Chicago
1890 National American Woman Suffrage Association formed
1890 Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives published
1892 Department of Sociology founded—University of Chicago
1899 W.E.B. Dubois’s Philadelphia Negro published
1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle published
1906 Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act passed
1908 Muller v. Oregon—Supreme Court upholds max working hour law for women
1909 NAACP founded by DuBois
1913 17th Amendment—Direct election of Senators
1916 Keating-Owen Act—limits child labor
1919 18th Amendment—Prohibition
1920 19th Amendment—Women’s Suffrage
