1. The Progressive Era:
Chapter 4 Sections 1-3

2. Lecture Focus Question
How did Progressives work to help the urban poor?

3. The Drive For Reform
Progressivism: movement founded on belief that new ideas & honest, efficient govt could bring about social justice in response to problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and immigration

4. CHILD LABOR

5. Living Conditions
Tenements were owned by landlords who lived far away.
Families had to live within walking distance of factories
Few windows and poor sanitary conditions
Typically housed multiple families in one apartment

6. Journalists Uncover Injustices
Muckrakers: journalists and writers who dramatized the need for reform
Upton Sinclair
“The Jungle”
Revealed unsanitary practices in meatpacking industry
Jacob Riis
“How the Other Half Lives”
Lack of sanitation and safety in tenements

7. Social Gospel Movement
Social Gospel: idea that Christianity (charity & justice) should be the basis for reform
Ex: Jane Addams & settlement house movement

8. The Struggle Against Discrimination
Americanization: process of helping immigrants to assimilate
English classes
Cooking classes
Hygiene classes
Offered by many Progressive groups/programs

9. Brain Snack Progressivism and a Broom Directions: Make a
list of things the
following two items
have in common
with each other:
Progressivism and
a Broom

10. Women Make Progress
National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA): fought for women’s suffrage
National Woman’s Party (NWP): 1st group to march with picket signs in front of the White House
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU): wanted to make alcohol illegal
Margaret Sanger: opened 1st birth control clinic
Ida B. Wells: formed National Association of Colored Women

11. Victory! (After 100 years)
19th Amendment: passed in 1920, gave women the constitutional right to vote

12. Racism Limits Progressivism

14. Lecture Focus Question
How did Progressives work to help the urban poor?