DBQ 13: Progressives vs. Populist Party
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DBQ 13 Amanda Dougherty
Progressive Era
DBQ 13 Amanda Dougherty
power point of progressive era
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A study of the Progressive Era Muckraking The exposing of corruption in the government or private business Chicago?s Union Stock Yards Chicago?s Union Stock Yards The Jungle The Jungle?s effect Government created sanitation laws and other restrictions for the meat companies This made food products safer Made Chicago?s industry the focus of America Cornelius Vanderbilt Robber Barons One of the American industrial or financial tycoons who became wealthy by unethical means, such as exploitation of labor Think monopoly guy Cornelius Vanderbilt (rail & shipping) was considered one Argued for ?laissez faire? What is laissez faire? John D. Rockefeller President of Standard Oil Company ExxonMobil, Chevron, Conoco, BP, Marathon
Chapter 21 outline out of many
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Chapter 21: Urban America and the Progressive Era (1900-1917)
American Communities
Lillian Wald was a girl with a good upbringing who moved to NY to become a nurse
Wald and Mary Brewster worked as visiting nurses
Professional care at home for 10 to 25 cents, info on health care, sanitation, and disease prevention
1895 ? philanthropist Jacob Smith donated house on Henry Street Settlement @ Lower East Side
Henry Street Settlement became example for new kind of reform community based on college level women
Unlike other moral reformers, they lived alongside the poor and worked from the inside
Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, Florence Kelly
Henry Street Settlement survived by donations from wealthy NYers
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