Progressive Movement Social Problems
Goals of the Progressive Movement A government controlled by the people Guaranteed economic opportunities through government regulation Elimination of Social Injustices
Women’s Movement Women were the leaders of the Progressive Movement
Social Injustices for Women No right to Vote Destruction of family by alcohol, drugs, and violence Children worked all day and had no education Earned less money than men
Susan B. Anthony Leader of the Women’s Movement Encouraged women to enter work force during World War I
Accomplishments of Women’s Movement 18 th Amendment –prohibition; eliminated sale of alcohol in the United States 19 th Amendment –women got the right to vote
Accomplishments of Women’s Movement Women gained equal rights as men legally but were still kept out of power by men
African American Problems The Era of Jim Crow
What is Jim Crow? Laws that legally separated whites and blacks in public places Designed to keep blacks as second class citizens
Enforced through lynchings –A–Attacks on blacks who tried to violate Jim Crow
Plessy VS Ferguson (1896) Free black sued to challenge the legality of Jim Crow Laws
Plessy VS Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court ruled the “separate but equal” laws did not violate 14 th amendment
African American Leaders
Ida B Wells Led an anti- lynching campaign Investigated and reported lynchings for various newspapers
Ida B Wells Forced federal gov’t to take action
Booker T Washington Accepted segregation
Booker T Washington Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education and economic success
W.E.B. Dubois First black to receive PHD from Harvard Vocational education was meaningless without equality
W.E.B. Dubois Helped found National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Accomplishments of Progressive Movement People gained more power in local and state governments Government abandoned policy of laissez-faire capitalism Government was forced to serve people’s needs in order to avoid another American Revolution