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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Notes for 5th period

MUCKRAKERS!!!
- Jacob Riis: wrote about the slums of New York
- Ida Tarbell: wrote about the Rockefeller oil companies and how he mistreated his workers
- Upton-St.Clair: He had a popular magazine called The Jungle that led to the passing of 2 laws called the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and the Drug Act which protected people from eating dangerous foods and taking risky drugs. The Inspection Act led to inspections of meat packing plants.

Ashcan schools were those where painters painted more realistic paintings

Settlement houses, like the Hull House run by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr, and their services helped immigrants out by providing daycare, penny banks, employment bureau, playgrounds, social clubs, reading groups, lecture series, and an orchestra.
1) Jane Addams became a very prominent woman figure because she was highly educated and succeeded in getting the government involved in improving sanitation and getting rid of prostitution and alcoholism.
- Things that developed from this uprise were the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti- Saloon League. Also the 18th Amendment to the Constitution.

Cultural Conservatism:
- attitudes toward the entertainment of the working- class was not impressive
- The Mann Act was formed which prohibited the illegal transportation of women over state borders for “immoral reasons.”
- Saloons were fought against, but they provided decent meals for workers, ways to cash checks, and the ability to easily socialize.

Mainstream Socialism and Progressivism: They were moving towards conservatism, but cooperation between the two crumbled
1) the socialists wanted the government to step in and control the big businesses because they wanted to weaken the robber barons

Municipal Reform: Many corporations used their monopoly to charge humongous fares & rates which they had won from bribing political machine officials
- progressives wanted to reform to weaken robber barons
1) City Commission Plan
2) City Manager Plan

Reform in the States: To weaken political bosses
1) Direct primary- Voters choose party candidates
2) 17th Amendment- Direct voter election of senators
3) Initiative
4) Referendum
5) Recall

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