Progressive Movement 1890-1920

Progressivism Views on how to fix problems that existed in American society. Believed industrialism & urbanization created social problems.

Urbanization & Industrialization

Journalists who investigated social conditions & political corruption. Muckrakers Journalists who investigated social conditions & political corruption.

Upton Sinclair Published “The Jungle” which was so shocking that it launched a government investigation of the meatpacking industry.

1906 Sinclair’s book made consumers ill & angry. Roosevelt & Congress required standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants.

1906 Pure Food & Drug Act Prohibited the making, sale or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food & drugs.

What does that mean? Publishers were competing on who could expose the most corruption or scandal.

Areas of, corporation, government, vote stealing, poverty, disease, & crime.

Who benefits from the Muckrakers? The people/society that receive better working & living conditions.

Child Labor In 1900 over 1.7 million children under the age of 16 worked outside the home. 1900 Population of the United States,76,212,168

John Spargo Exposed the conditions children were working in, in his book, The Bitter Cry of Children.

View of the Ewen Breaker of the Pa. Coal Co View of the Ewen Breaker of the Pa. Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. S. Pittston, Pa.

A moments glimpse of the outer world A moments glimpse of the outer world. Eleven year old girl, working over a year. Rhodes Mfg. Co. Lincolnton, N.C.

Some boys and girls were so small they had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads and to put back the empty bobbins. Bibb Mill No. 1. Macon, GA

Children working in a bottle factory. Indianapolis, IN August 1908

Girls at weaving machines. Evansville, IN October 1908

Girls working in a box factory. Tampa, FL January 1909

Suffrage- What does it mean? Suffrage Movement Suffrage- What does it mean? The Right To Vote.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Of the 500 employees, 146 were dead. The bodies were taken to a covered pier on Twenty-Sixth Street, near the East River. Thousands of people lined up to identify the bodies of loved ones. After a week, all but seven were identified.

Suffrage Movement What was their goal? Voting & change, they favored a passage of protective labor laws.

NWP members picket outside the International Amphitheater in Chicago, where Woodrow Wilson delivers a speech. October 20, 1916.

National Woman’s Party (NWP) Created by Alice Paul. Picketed the White House, blocked sidewalks,

chained themselves to lampposts, & had hunger strikes if arrested.

Parades for Suffrage

Anti-Suffragists

Anti-Suffragists

Anti-Suffragists

Miss Alice Paul, New Jersey, National Chairman, Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage; Member, Ex-Officio, National Executive Committee, Woman's Party. Edmonston. ca. 1915

19th Amendment August 26th, 1920, the 19th amendment was passed and women had the right to vote.

Lucy Burns in Occoquan Workhouse. November 1917.