Feb. 5 US II

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Feb. 5 US II

• Goal Discover why change was necessary to clean
  up early 20th century America
• QOD Define muckraker
• Agenda Read The Jungle excerpt by Upton
  Sinclair, powerpoint on modern day muckrakers
• HW pros and cons due
• Ida Tarbell due tomorrow
• All signed paperwork due
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vkr8-E8may2Y

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MUCKRAKERS CRITICIZE BIG BUSINESS

• Though most progressives did not embrace
  socialism, many writers saw the truth in Debs
  criticism
• Journalists known as Muckrakers exposed
  corruption in business
• Ida Tarbell exposed Standard Oil Companys
  cut-throat methods of eliminating competition

Ida Tarbell
Some view Michael Moore as a modern muckraker
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Teddy Roosevelt

• Creates the Meat Inspection Act-safe ingredients
  and freshness of meat
• Creates Pure Food and Drug Act (truth in
  labeling)

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Problems today and Advocacy Groups

• FDA Filth allowances

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PETA- Advocates for animal crueltySocial

• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vpNxcylWLEH8
  Steve-O
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?v-rX-qnZgxhI
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vgBrWVUnFNi8
• propaganda Tugs at the heartstrings,
  over-exaggeration, appeals to heart and mind

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PSA Social Issues

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vY-Elr5K2Vuo
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vDGE8LzRaySk
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vJxAGQN-YQa8
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vSTHpMUYeznQ

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1.PROTECT SOCIAL WELFARE

• Problem Industry in the late 19th century was
  largely unregulated, women and children had no
  rights
• Solution Settlement homes and churches served
  the community
• Also the YMCA and Salvation Army took on service
  roles

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2. PROMOTE MORAL DEVELOPMENT

• Problem Some reformers felt that the answer to
  societies problems was personal behavior
• SolutionThey proposed such reforms as
  prohibition
• Groups wishing to ban alcohol included the
  Womans Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

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3. Create Economic Reform

• Solution Some people will embrace Socialism
• Eugene Debs will organize the American Socialist
  Party in 1901

• Problem The Panic of 1893 led people to believe
  that capitalism was bad

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4. FOSTERING EFFICIENCY

• Problem The demand for products outweighed the
  production of goods.
• Solution Many Progressive leaders put their
  faith in scientific principles to make society
  better

• Production line-increase rate at which goods were
  produced

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Time to make your own PSA

• Directions
• Example of student work
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vBGm8QRvIA0A
• Your issue should address the goals of reformers,
  social, economic, moral, or efficiency
• Examples, Homelessness (economic), police
  brutality (moral), domestic abuse (moral), sexual
  harassment (moral), computers replacing workers
  (efficiency), job equality (economic, social),
  environment (social, moral)