Unit 5 The Progressive Era

The Wizard of Oz and

The Progressive Era

L. Frank Baum

• Born in 1856 in New York

• Wealth family• Interest in theater• Moved to South

Dakota, then to Chicago

• Mother-in-law was Matilda Joslyn Gage

• Born March 24, 1826• Raised in an

antislavery home• 1845 married Henry

Hill Gage• Worked with

Anthony and Stanton

• Told son-in-law to write down his story of Oz

• Died March 18, 1898

The Ruby Red Slippers/Shoes: In the original book the slippers are silver. The idea of “free silver” was to help the farmers in the Midwest because it would cause inflation or prices to go up so that the farmers could pay off their debt.Glinda the Good Witch: The Populist or People’s PartyYellow Brick Road: The gold standard

The Tin Woodsman: The dehumanization of the American worker because of the assembly line. The rusting the Tin Woodsman experiences is the unemployment in the 1890s.

The Scarecrow: the mid-western farmer, generally looked at as not being smart but it does take a lot of knowledge to run a farm.

The Cowardly Lion: William Jennings Bryan, 3 time presidential candidate for the populist party, great speaker, promoted the silver standard.

Dorothy Gale: Dorothy and her group are traveling to see the Wizard to solve their problems. Coxey’s Army marches to Washington D.C. to get help to solve the unemployment of the 1890s.

Coxey’s Army 1894

Washington, DC(Emerald City)

Dorothy lives in Kansas

William Jennings Bryan• Candidate of the Populist Party• Free Silver• Cross of Gold Speech• Great speaker

The Wicked Witch of the West•Mother nature• Bad weather• Winds• Lack of rain, drought

•Flying monkeys•poppies

The Wicked Witch of the East• bankers or financiers •the industrial businesses

The Wizard, Professor Marvel, doorman and coach driver.

•Characterized any one of the presidents during the late 1800s• Being everything to everybody• Cleveland, Harrison and McKinley