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1/27/2016

Roosevelts Progressivism (1901 - 1912)

Vocabulary:
laissez-faire: a policy of non-interference, usually of
government non-interference in business
temperance: abstinence from alcoholic drink
muckrakers: reform-minded investigative journalists

Announcements
Tutorials after school today
Map Quiz

A Drunkards Child
My father is a drunkard my mother she is
dead
And I am just an orphan child no place to lay
my head
All through this world I wander they drive me
from their door
Someday I'll find a welcome on heaven's
golden shore
Song

A Drunkards Child
Now if to me you'll listen I'll tell a story sad
How drinking rum and the gambling hell
have stole away my dad
My mother she is in heaven where God and
the angels smile
And now I know she's watching her lonely
orphan child
[vibes guitar]

A Drunkards Child
We were once so happy and had a happy
home
Till daddy went to drinking rum and then he
gambled some
He left my darling mother she died of a
broken heart
And as I tell my story I can see your
teardrops start

A Drunkards Child
Don't weep for me and mother although I
know it is sad
But try to find someone to cheer and save
my poor lonely dad
I'm awful cold and hungry she closed her
eyes and sighed
Then those who heard her story knew the
orphan child had died

Temperance
Religiously inspired,
movement began
after Panic of 1873
Womens Christian
Temperance Union,
led by Frances Willard
18th Amendment,
1919 prohibited
manufacture & sale of
liquor

Muckrakers
Sensational reporting under Pulitzer
and Hearst
Roosevelt criticized muckrakers
for bringing up problems but
offering no solutions
Exposed corruption in Standard Oil,
railroads
Upton Sinclairs, The Jungle
(1906) exposed meatpacking
industry passage of Meat
Inspection Act & Pure Food and
Drug Act

Progressive Reforms
Democratic reforms
(initiative, referendum,
recall)
Direct election of senators
(17th amendment, 1913)
Jane Addams & Settlement
House movement social
welfare for poor, urban
communities

Environmentalism
Began before Roosevelt
Audubon & Sierra
Clubs; Yellowstone &
Grand Canyon reserves
Roosevelt dramatically
expanded conservation
of national forests and
wilderness opposed by
some in Congress
TR established U.S.
Forest Service (Gifford

Check for Understanding

1. What were muckrakers and what did they
do?
2. How did the temperance movement relate
to the womens rights movement?