1. Chapter 21 The Progressive Era

2. Background: Mugwumps-supporters of government reform
Provides idea for good government and reform to change society for the better

3. Social Gospel
Mix of social responsibility and religion
“Am I my brother’s keeper?”

4. Walter Rauschenbusch

5. Features of Progressivism: *Democracy
How to get people more involved in the process of government
*Efficiency/Knowledge
Taylorism inspires a look at how to streamline gov. & society

6. *Social Improvement
Everything is based on the assumption that society can be improved
*Anti-Monopoly
Progressives feel monopolies are bad for the country

7. Nature vs. Nurture

8. Settlement House Movement

9. Jane Addams

10. Hull House 1889

11. Helps immigrants learn the language and customs
Often staffed by educated women of the middle or upper class
Helps bring about the Social worker

12. Settlement House in New York

13. Eleanor Roosevelt

14. Muckrakers
MUCKRAKERS

15. How the Other half Lives
Jacob Riis
How the Other half Lives
Jacob Riis

16. Home of an Italian Rag Picker

17. Mullen’s Alley

18. Bandit’s Roost
Mulberry Street

19. 5 cent Lodging Bayard St

20. Basement Pub 3:00 am Mulberry St

21. A plank for a bed

22. Women’s lodging room W. 47th St

23. What boys learn on their street playground

24. Mulberry Bend

25. Peddler in the Cellar Ludlow St

26. Ida Tarbell

27. Lincoln Steffens
The Shame of Cities

28. Upton Sinclair

29. Published 1906

30. Professions

31. By end of 19th century an increase in administrative and professional occupations

32. New middle class puts high value on education
Want standards set for professionals

33. 1901 American Medical Association
By /3 of doctors are members

34. 1916 Bar Association

35. Businessmen set up the Chamber of Commerce

36. These organizations not only set standards but keep out Blacks, Women and Immigrants

37. Women & Professions
* % of doctors are female

38. *Teaching – 2/3 of all teachers 90% of all professional women
*Social work
*nursing
*librarian

39. Progressives and government
How to make government more responsive to the people and take control from political machines?

40. *Secret ballot
-Eliminate party-printed tickets
-Voters can split votes
*Direct Primary
-People select candidates

41. *Initiative & Referendum -Voters submit legislation
-Ideas from Populists
-Voters submit legislation
-Voters approve legislation

42. *Recall
-Remove public officials

43. *City Manager
-Galveston, TX?
-Expertise

44. Wisconsin The most Progressive state in the country is:
Have worker’s comp, regulations on workplace, and inheritance tax

45. Robert
La Follette

46. Part of the result of attacks on party and machines plus the success of various Progressive groups is the rise of the special interest group

47. Women and Reform

48. Changes in lives of women of middleclass
*children starting school earlier
*Tech makes housework easier
*may have domestic help
*had fewer children
Have time to get involved

49. Women’s Clubs
Start as social/cultural organizations
Become interested in social betterment

50. Because they are upper and middle class have funds for the group
Because women can’t vote it is seen as nonpolitical

51. Much work is noncontroversial:
Plant trees, support schools & libraries, raise money for hospital and parks

52. Also work for ‘nurturing’ issues:
Child labor
Better working conditions
Pension for widows and orphans

55. Some educated women stay single
10% of American women did not marry

56. Women’s Suffrage
Women claim same natural rights as men
Other say women have a “special sphere” as wife and mother-shouldn’t vote

57. Supporters claim that this “special sphere” will be useful
Gives women a unique view point
Will help with temperance and ending war

58. Anti-suffrage people link the movement to divorce, neglect of children and promiscuity

59. N A W S A
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merican
oman
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60. Carrie Chapman Catt

61. Alice Paul

62. Susan B. Anthony

69. Emily Davison

70. Emily Davison Derby

72. 1920 – 19th Amendment ratified
Women have the right to vote

73. African Americans and reform

74. Booker T. Washington

75. Atlanta Compromise:
Work for immediate improvement not far off social change

76. W.E.B. DuBois

77. Feels Washington’s approach encourages whites to impose segregation
Get an education
Become a professional
Fight for immediate civil rights

78. Niagara Movement – 1905
1909 NAACP founded

79. Temperance Movement
Who supports it:
*women
*businessmen
*Political reformers

80. 1873 Women’s Christian Temperance Movement Union

81. Carry A. Nation

86. Daddy's in there. Our shoes, and stockings and clothes and food are in there, too, and they'll never come out.“

87. By 1916 19 states have passed prohibition laws
Moral fervor from WWI, Progressives and rural fundamentalist team up
18th Amendment starts Jan 1920

88. Socialism
Growth in party
,000 votes
,000,000 votes

89. All agree there must be economic change but can’t agree on what kind or how

90. Eugene V. Debs

91. Industrial Workers of the World

92. ‘Big Bill’ Haywood

93. Wobblies want:
*single union for all workers
*abolition of Slave wage system
*rejection of political action in favor of general strike

94. "Shall you kneel in deep submission, from your cradle to your grave
"Shall you kneel in deep submission, from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?"
Joe Hill

97. Louis Brandeis
Other People’s Money