Progressive Reformer Research Assignment

• For homework—due to my S://In-box (there will be a REFORMER RESEARCH file for your class period)—or you can email me… DUE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28 TH BY 7:35 A.M. • You will research—then report back to the class—about a progressive reformer in the late 1800s & early 1900s.

• You need to create ONE PowerPoint slide which includes a picture of your reformer which answers the following questions:

Research your Person:

Be sure to focus on their area of early 1900s reform (not other areas of their lives…) Answer the following questions: • 1. What area of American society did your person want to reform?

• 2. Why was there a need to reform this area? In other words, what was so bad that it needed to be fixed?

• 3. What methods did this person use to achieve the intended reform?

• 4. How successful was this person/their movement? What was its lasting impact?

• Reform: Muckraker who investigated & exposed horrid social & economic conditions to protect consumers • Need: Gruesome working conditions negatively impacted consumer goods, immigrant workers were exploited & useless or dangerous medicines were on the market • Methods: He wrote The Jungle, 1906 which caused a public uproar that partly contributed to new laws. He wrote 90 books total. He was a Socialist who ran unsuccessfully for Congress & for President • Success: The Pure Food and Drug Act outlawed selling adulterated food & drugs & required accurate ingredient labels; the Meat Inspection Act imposed strict sanitary requirements for inspection. Yeah, Socialism!

meatpackers & called for federal meat • Lasting Impact: His work led to more reputable processing of food, meat, and medicines.

Example: Upton Sinclair

• Upton Sinclair • Eugene Debs • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Kate Chopin • Carrie Chapman Catt • Alice Paul • William Allen White • Booker T. Washington • W.E.B. DuBois • Jane Addams • Florence Kelly • Lillian Wald • WCTU/Frances Willard • Anti-Saloon League & Wayne Wheeler • Carrie Nation • Ida Tarbell • Lincoln Steffens • Theodore Dreiser • Frank Norris • David Graham Phillips • Herbert Croley • Hazen Pingree • Hiram Johnson • Tom Johnson • John Dewey • Gifford Pinchot • John Muir • Samuel M. Jones • Walter Rauschenbusch • Robert LaFollette