Chapter 18: The Progressive Era (pt `1)

March 4th-

Years of the Progressive Era

1900-1916

Number of deaths in Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire

146 (mostly women)

Results of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire

Legislation: factory inspection laws and fire safety codes

Why so many women died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire

The managers had chained the doors shut to maximize the work effort

T/F: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire affected the country in a way that was comparable to 9/11

True

5 Focal Areas for the Progressives

1. Urban poor

2. Women’s suffrage

3. Workers’ rights (unions, child labor)

4. City bosses and monopolies

5. Prohibition (temperance)

Man who coined “muckrakers”

Teddy Roosevelt

Define muckraker

Journalists exposed corporate greed and plight of immigrants

Muckraker who wrote “The Jungle” exposing the meat packing industry

Upton Sinclair

Social legislation after The Jungle

Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act

Main places immigrants were coming from

East: Ellis Island (NY) from Southern and Eastern Europe (Italy and Russia)

West: Angel Island (San Fransisco Bay) from Asia and Mexico

Reason US was recruiting Mexican workers

agriculture work in the Southwest

Describe consumer freedoms

Household products created free time for things like amusement parks, dance halls, and theaters

How consumerism changed

Transition from “self-directedness” (what you need") to “other-directedness” (what everyone else has)

Typical jobs for women

Seamstresses. nurses, teachers, secretarial

Advocated that that women cannot and should not both work and raise children without the family crumbling

Charlotte Perkins

1905 produced Model T Ford in an assembly line

Henry Ford

Fordism

term for mass production, less variety and assembly line

Developed “scientific management” and “one best way”; efficiency in production

Fredrick W. Taylor

Taylorism

time management in mass production