1. On your Warm Up Paper, Write and Answer the Following Question
Why were political machines able to use immigrants to stay in power?

2. Progressive Era Pt. 2- Social Reforms

3. Muckraking Muckrakers Muckrakers Muckrakers
Muckrakers: Journalists who uncover wrongdoing
Jacob Riis- documented struggles of poor working class in NYC
Wrote book- How the Other Half Lives
His photos helped convince the city to improve living conditions
Other muckrakers: Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell
What contributions did muckrakers make to the reform movement?
Muckrakers
Wrote about problems in society
Society wants to start fixing problems
Muckrakers
Muckrakers
Wrote about problems in society

9. Social Reforms Welfare services- to help the poor
Cities started providing services
Helped poor and immigrants
Public baths, free kindergarten, homeless shelters, utilities (water, electricity, gas)
Child Labor Laws/Legislation
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act: limited number of hours children could work
More required school attendance > less work in factories
Minimum Wage Laws/Legislation
Raised pay
Especially for women and child workers

10. Women’s Contribution
Women lead many of the Progressive movements- mainly middle class women
Temperance movement- people who were against drinking alcohol
Mainly led by women- why?
Tired of domestic violence
Didn’t like influence of new immigrant groups who drank
Frances Willard- temperance, suffragist, educator
Temperance- movement against alcohol
Helped pass 18th (Prohibition) and 19th amendments
Settlement houses- provided help for poor, especially immigrants
Education, health care, housing, job training
Jane Addams- founder of Hull House- most well-known settlement house

13. African- American Women
Ida B. Wells- journalist, editor
Early civil rights leader
Wrote about lynching in newspapers
Active in women’s rights/suffrage
Co-founder of NAACP
How did women contribute to the Progressive Movement?

15. African American Rights
WEB Du Bois- another leader of the movement
First African American to earn Ph.D
Thought the elite blacks, the intellectual, should advance the cause of all blacks
Called the “Talented Tenth”
Wanted immediate rights through legislation/law
Helped form NAACP in 1909
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Booker T. Washington – a leader of the movement
Founded Tuskegee Institute- first private college est. by blacks
Focused on VOCATIONAL training: training in a specific job or trade (plumber, technician)
Blacks should improve personal habits to earn equality
Wanted slower approach for rights- called accomodationism
Believed in taking what white society gives you
Get social equality through economic equality
Rejected forced integration- thought we could exist separately
Both
Wanted civil rights
Wanted political, economic, and social equality
Wanted education

16. Why did W. E. B. Du Bois oppose Booker T
Why did W.E.B. Du Bois oppose Booker T. Washington’s views on racial discrimination?

17. Eugenics
Some people wanted to improve genetic features of people through selective breeding and (forced) sterilizations- called Eugenics
Based on idea that inferior traits (social, economic, physical) were passed on to offspring
Believed the poor, disabled, mentally ill caused the problems
Eugenics stopped after WWII b/c of Nazis
Used sterilization and euthanasia program
Nazi leaders claimed were inspired by US programs

20. BIG IDEA
What social problems did the Progressive Movement seek the resolve?