HIST 1378 TTh 2:30-4 PM Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture The Crisis of the 90sI. HawaiiII. CubaIII. InequalityIV. TermsThe Progressive EraI. Social Justice and MuckrakingII. Social Equality: Ideas and LawsIII. Women’s SuffrageIV. The “Other” ProgressivesOutline of Current Lecture The Progressive EraI. MeatpackingEmpire and the Great WarI. European BackgroundCurrent LectureTHE PROGRESSIVE ERA(S)Progressive Era - The Response to Industrialization and the Call for ReformI. Social Justice and Muckrakinga. Muckraking - reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazinesand continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting.i. Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” - exposed factory conditions of capitalist era1. Led to Pure Food and Drug Act/ Meat Inspection Actii. Exposed child, sweatshoplaborThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.1. Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire - fire broke out in building that had all doors locked, led to many deathsII. Social Equality: Ideas and Lawsa. Movement for social justiceIII. Women’s Suffragea. Right of women to voteb. Equality in workplaceIV. The “Other” Progressivesa. “Corporate Liberalism” - right to pursue economic goals based on free markets for corporationsV. Meatpackinga. “The Big Four” meatpackers dominated the industry, but wanted regulation lawsi. Small meatpacking companies would still sell “bad” meat for cheap, but big meatpackers could throw it out because it’s not such a lossii. Big meatpackers went to legislators for meatpacking inspection laws so that small companies could not afford to sell enough (good for competition)b. Regulations for controlling meat sanitation after Sinclair’s book in 1904, but meatpackers themselves had already wanted thisi. His book helped the big meatpackers to help enact the Pure Food and Drug Act/ Meat Inspection Actii. Consumers have safer meat while big companies can raise prices for meat/ small companies go out of businessOverall: Two Types of Reform: Reform for the People and Corporate LiberalismEMPIRE AND THE GREAT WARI. European Backgrounda. “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” by Lenini. When capitalism maxes out, empire is createdii. Every country is doing the same thing, being ruled by industrial ruling classes; pretty soon, there will be nothing left (at this point, the empires themselves will go to war)iii. Capitalism will inevitably become imperialismb. Ottoman Empire is falling
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