Major Progressive Programs The Progressive Era Major Progressive Programs
Education Progressives believed that more access to education for all people would create an enlightened population Pushed for expansion of public education system
Education John Dewey Women began attending college in large numbers Wanted to reform the education system More emphasis on experience rather then memorization of facts Women began attending college in large numbers
Social Work Settlement Houses Created by Jane Addams Group homes in city slums that helped poor urban residents Promoted public health reform in cities Chlorinating water supplies Tighten sanitary regulations Created public health clinics and dispensers
Racial Anti-Discrimination Efforts Booker T. Washington Believed that African-Americans would achieve equality through education and economic power Pushed the idea that African-American community had to help itself rather then expect white society to help
Racial Anti-Discrimination Efforts W.E.B Dubois Urged African-American community to fight for economic and political equality Founded NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Women’s Rights Seneca Falls Convention (Seneca Falls, NY. 1848) Birthplace of the Women’s Suffrage movement Suffrage- refers to the right to vote; self determination
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth C. Stanton Women’s Rights Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott fought for women’s suffrage and an end of laws which discriminated against women Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth C. Stanton
Women’s Suffrage Nineteenth Amendment (1920)- gave women the right to vote
Important Events in the Struggle for Women’s Rights
Child Labor Laws Most states passed laws banning child labor prohibited children from working more then 10hrs day minimum work ages Enforcement of laws was difficult
Temperance Movement Women’s Christian Temperance Union Fought alcohol use on state level through blue laws 18th amendment (1919) banned the manufacture, sale, and Transportation of alcohol in the United States was eventually repealed
John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt Environment Conservationists wanted the government to supervise the nation’s resources and preserve land for future generations Supported by President Roosevelt John Muir was an influential conservationist John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt
John Muir Walked 1,000 miles from Indiana to Florida in 1864 John Muir moved to the Yosemite Valley in California in 1869 and worked to protect the valley from development Yosemite became one of the first national parks Started the Sierra Club 1892 Wrote a number of books advocating protecting wild places
Yosemite National Park