18901920 Section 1 The Drive for Reform Terms and People Progressivism movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms Muckraker writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business ID: 692792
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Chapter 8The Progressive Era1890-1920Slide2
Section 1: The Drive for ReformSlide3
Terms and PeopleProgressivism – movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms
Muckraker – writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business
Lincoln Steffens – editor of
McClure’s magazine
known for uncovering social problems
Jacob Riis – photographer for the
New York Evening Sun
, expose on “How the other Half Lives”Slide4Slide5
Terms and PeopleSocial Gospel – Walter Rauschenbusch taught Christianity should be the basis of social reform
Settlement house – a community center that provided social services to the urban poor
Jane Addams – leading figure in the settlement house movement
Direct primary – election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming electionsSlide6
Terms and PeopleInitiative – gave people the power to put a proposed new law on the ballotReferendum – allowed citizens to approve or reject laws passed by the legislature
Recall – gave voters the power to remove public servants from officeSlide7
Origins of ProgressivismWho? All classes and walks of life that wanted to act for the good of society
Common Beliefs: industrialization and urbanization created troubling social and political problems.
What is the difference between the Progressives and the Populists?
Target Problems: political reform (corrupt and ineffective), big business, reduce economic gapSlide8
Muckrakers Reveal the Need for Reform(a tool to clean manure and hay out of animals’ stables) coined by Theodore Roosevelt
Muckrakers using their journalistic skills exposed many of the social evils in late 19
th
century early 20
th
century societySlide9
Muckrakers Cont.Novelists Defend the Downtrodden and put a face on social problems. Slide10
Progressives Reform SocietyThe Social Gospel Guides reform efforts urged the end of child labor, shorter work week, and limit the power of corporations and trusts
Improve the lives of the urban poor
Protecting Children and Improving
Education
Improve industrial working
Conditions (Triangle Shirtwaist Factory)Slide11
Reforming GovernmentReformers Improve City Government, however only after tragedies such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and Galveston Texas hurricane
Progressives Reform Election Rules, to give the power back to the people, not corrupt politicians, and business leaders
Progressive Governors Take Charge, and begin to reform their own states. Limit Railroads, use of natural resources, and hiring state workersSlide12
Section 2: Women Make ProgressSlide13
Terms and PeopleFlorence Kelly – believed women were hurt by unfair prices they paid for goods to run their home
National Consumers League (NCL) – gave labels to “goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions” Today’s Fair Trade?
Temperance Movement – the practice of never
drinking alcoholSlide14
Terms and PeopleMargaret Sanger – thought family life and women’s health would improve if mothers had fewer children
Ida B. Wells – formed the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) helped families strive for success and help less fortunate
Carrie Chapman Catt – reenergized the
national suffrage movement and first
female school superintendentSlide15
Terms and PeopleNational American Woman Suffrage Association – fought for women's right to vote
Alice Paul – social activists raised in a Quaker home earned a PH.D and formed the first group of women to march with Picket signs
Nineteenth Amendment – the right
to vote shall not be denied or
abridged on account of sex
Make a Suffrage Poster!!!Slide16
Progressive Women Expand ReformsWorking Women Face Hardships; difficult jobs, long hours, and dangerous conditions. Expected to give wages to husbands, fathers or brothers.
Reformers Champion Working Women's Rights laws were passed and upheld to limit the number of hours women could work which later backfired to wages
Women Work for Changes in Family Life; alcohol was a main focus (men drinking liquor neglect their families, spent their earnings, and abuse their wives)Slide17
Women Fight for the Right to VoteSuffrage – the right to voteWomen's suffrage started state by state and led to many leading women in history (Catt, Paul, Kelley)Slide18
Section 3: The Struggle Against DiscriminationSlide19
Terms and peopleAmericanization – belief that assimilating immigrants into American society will make them more loyal citizens
Niagara Movement – denounced the idea of gradual progress for black Americans
NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People / free blacks from low-pay, free of ignorance, politically free, socially free (pg. 231)Slide20
Terms and PeopleAnti-Defamation League – to defend Jews and others against physical and verbal attacks, false statements
Mutualistas
– groups that made loans and provided legal assistance to Mexican-AmericansSlide21
Examine the Chart on page 242, Progressive Era legislation and constitutional amendments. What similarities and differences do you see?
Opening Work !!!Slide22
Section 5: Wilson’s New FreedomSlide23
Wilson and the Democrats PrevailWoodrow Wilson – Democrat candidate launched a program called New Freedom, first southern born president in more than 60 years
New Freedom
– placed strict government controls on corporationsSlide24
Wilson Regulates the EconomyWilson attacked the “triple wall of privilege,” tariffs, banks, and trustsSixteenth Amendment
– gave congress the power to levy an income tax
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
– placed national
banks under the control of the Federal
Reserve Board, ensured no person, bank,
or region from having to much money
(interest rates)Slide25
Wilson Strengthens antitrust RegulationFederal Trade Commission – monitor business practices that might lead to monopolies
Clayton Antitrust Act
– strengthened earlier antitrust laws by spelling out activities businesses could not engage
Today the FTC looks at stock trades, examines published ads, and regulates buying on the InternetSlide26
Workers’ rights protectedLabor unions could not be acted as trusts under the Clayton Antitrust Act
Adamson Act prevented nationwide railroad strike and limited railroad employees’ work to eight hour day Why?
Ludlow Massacre:Slide27
Progressivism Leaves a Lasting LegacyVoters have a greater influence; initiative, referendum, recall, and the Nineteenth Amendment
Federal government grew to offer more protection to Americans’ and gained more control over peoples’ lives
Antitrust laws and Federal Reserve Board watch over the economy
Federal government also had greater control over natural resources, i.e. dams, National Parks, resources