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Reforms of the Progressive MovementSlide2
Child Labor
Lewis Hine was a
photojournalist and muckraker. He took photos of child laborers, which brought a lot of attention to their cause.Slide3
Child labor reforms
Fair Labor Standards Act:
set a minimum age for child laborSlide4
Working conditions
Samuel Gompers was the
founder and president of the AFL. The AFL strengthened Labor Unions.Slide5
Working conditions reforms
Fair Labor Standards Act
: established the minimum wage and the 40 hours work week.Slide6
Government
Various elected officials
brought about reforms that increased democracy: gave voters more control over their governmentSlide7
Government reforms
Direct primary
Secret ballot
Initiative, referendum, recall
17
th
Amendment (elections of senators)
19
th
AmendmentSlide8
Poverty & immigration
Jane Addams was a middle class woman and founder of
Hull House
, the first settlement house. Settlement houses offered social services to immigrants and the poor (education, daycare, job training).Slide9
Poverty & immigration
Jacob Riis was a
muckraker. He wrote a book called How the Other Half Lives which brought attention to the misery of life in the slums.Slide10
Poverty & immigration reforms
Settlement houses
were the beginning of social services for the poor.Slide11
Health concerns
Upton Sinclair was a
writer. He wrote a novel called The Jungle which exposed the unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry.Slide12
Excerpt from The jungle
There was meat that was taken out of pickle and would often be found sour, and they would rub it up with soda to take away the smell, and sell it to be eaten on free-lunch counters; also of all the miracles of chemistry which they performed, giving to any sort of meat, fresh or salted, whole or chopped, any color and any flavor and any odor they chose.Slide13
Health concerns reforms
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug ActSlide14
alcohol
The
temperance movement wanted to prevent alcohol from ruining people’s lives. Prohibitionists wanted to make alcohol illegal
.
Carrie Nation
was a leader of the prohibitionists.Slide15
Alcohol reforms
18
th Amendment
banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol. Marked beginning of
PROHIBITION!Slide16
Women’s rights
The suffrage movement was the effort to get women the right to
vote. Leaders included Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Susan B. Anthony
. Susan B. Anthony was the most well known of the
suffragettes
.Slide17
Women’s rights reforms
19
th Amendment
gave women the right to vote.Slide18
African Americans’ rights
Booker T. Washington was a leader in the African American community who believed
equality
could be achieved through vocational education. He also accepted social separation.Slide19
African americans
’ rights
W.E.B. Du Bois believe in full political, civil and social rights for African Americans.Slide20
African americans
’ rights reform
Reform will come later