1. A movement in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries to reform social problems created by Industrialization. Goal: Gov’t should take a more active role in solving society’s problems. Essential Question: What reforms came out of the Progressive Movement?

2.  Journalists that wrote about social, economic, and political injustices  Articles printed in popular magazines increased public’s awareness of social ills

3.  Social Gospel – religious obligation to help the unfortunate  Salvation Army

4.  Provided social services in immigrant neighborhood  Hull House founded by Jane Addams in Chicago

5.  Cities were unable to provide garbage collection, safe housing, police and fire protection  Tenement Act of 1901 passed in NYC: lights, air, room size, sanitation  Dept of Street Cleaning  Death rate dropped

7. White Wings

8.  National Child Labor Committee worked to end child labor  States passed minimum age laws and maximum hours laws  Passed compulsory education laws  States passed maximum work hour laws for women  Worker’s compensation  Minimum wage

9.  Many blamed alcohol for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children  Employers believed drinking hurt worker efficiency  Women ’ s Christian Temperance Union Advocated for a ban on liquor Joined by the Anti-Saloon League  18 th Amendment is passed 1920 Prohibits manufacture, sale and distribution of alcohol

11.  Recall - gave voters the ability to remove public officials from office  Initiative – allowed citizens to propose and pass new laws  Referendum - allowed voters to overturn legislation already passed  Direct Primaries - voters could vote for a candidate to run in the general election  Secret Ballot – all candidates names on one piece of plain paper  Seventeenth Amendment – popular vote of senators

12.  Seneca Falls Convention in 1848  Disappointment in 15 th Amendment  Difference in Strategy National Woman Suffrage Association: Constitutional Amendment American Woman Suffrage Association: State governments legalize  Remain unpopular Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe

13.  1890 two groups unite to form National American Woman Suffrage Association  Gains popularity as women want to vote for reforms they support  Used a variety of strategies  19 th Amendment passed

15. 1) What were several accomplishments during the Progressive Era? 2) How was democracy expanded during the Progressive Era?