CHAPTER 18
PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT Challenge
ORIGINS Urban-industrial crisis Economic depression
INDUSTRIAL PITFALLS Child labor Wages Rights
MUCKRAKERS Investigative journalism Expose social evils Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Florence Kelley Factory conditions 8-hour work day child labor
SETTLEMENT HOMES Jane Addams Community centers Skills Problem? ▫Poverty
PROHIBITION? Alcohol? Control 1920: 18 th amendment Narcotics, smoking
“”THE” SOCIAL EVIL Prostitution Week’s pay = Day’s work Before 1900: legal, rarely enforced laws
BASEBALL Amusement parks Movies ▫Popular ▫Immigrants, children ▫Evil
MAP 21.1 Immigration to the United States, 1901–20
Newly landed European immigrant families on the dock at Ellis Island in New York harbor, Originally a black and white photograph, this image was later color tinted for reproduction as a postcard or book illustration. SOURCE:The Granger Collection,New York.
Japanese ▫L.A. Mexicans ▫S.W. Jews ▫NYC
“BIRTH CONTROL” Margaret Sanger, 1913 Women: Control own bodies
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE 1920, 19 th amendment
RACISM Blacks, racism, and stereotypes “Coon Songs” Institutionalized
Jim Crow Schools separate but “unequal” ▫$11 per White student, $3 per Black student
TEDDY ROOSEVELT “Progressive” president Environment