1. Chapter 21 APUSH Mrs. Price
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” - George Washington Carver

2. Progressivism
Belief that society was capable of improvement

3. Varieties of Progressivism
Antimonopoly: fear of concentrated power
Social Cohesion: everyone is connected
Faith in Knowledge: importance of science

4. Muckrakers Journalists who exposed problems
Targets: Trusts, railroads, govt, urban political machines

5. Ida Tarbell
Exposed business practices of Standard Oil Co.

6. Lincoln Steffens
The Shame of the Cities
Exposed political machines

7. Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Exposed life of urban poor

8. Upton Sinclair

9. Supporters of Progressivism
Middle Class
Labor
Religious Groups
Social Gospel Movement
YMCA
Westerners
African Americans
Women

10. The “New Woman” Product of social and economic changes
Looked for opportunities outside of the home

11. Women’s Clubs
Activities: settlement houses – Hull House, supported libraries, etc.
Pushed other issues: child labor, urban housing, food & drug safety, prohibition

12. Women Suffrage Attracted more support after changing tactics
Leaders: Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul
1919: 39 States had women suffrage
1920: 19th Amendment ratified

15. Government Reform: Cities
Reduce power of machines & parties
Secret ballot
Commissions & City Managers

16. Govt Reform: State Level
Direct primary elections
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Reform Governors (Robert LaFollette WI)

17. Moral Issues of Progressivism
Temperance
1. Led by women
: 18th Amendment ratified

18. Immigration Restriction
1. Eugenics: led to calls for sterilization
2. Dillingham Report: certain groups were less able to assimilate = restrict immigration by ethnicity

19. Socialism
Strong in urban immigrant communities & with farmers in South & Midwest
Wanted basic structural changes in the economy
IWW Industrial Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)
US Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (1901)

20. Eugene Debs American Socialist Party