1. The Progressive Movement
Social Reform

2. Social & Moral Reform
Social Reform: worked to soften some of the harsh conditions of industrialization.
Settlement Housing: to help the poor through community centers and churches
YMCA: opened libraries, classes, recreation.
Florence Kelley: advocate for improving the lives of women and children. Illinois Factory Act– prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours, which became the model for other states.

3. Social & Moral Reform
Moral Reform: morality was the key to improving the lives of poor people.
Prohibition: banning of alcoholic beverages. 18th Amendment
Feared that alcohol was undermining American morals.
Started by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Becomes the largest women’s group in US History
Entered saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloon keepers to stop selling alcohol.
Carry Nation: walked into saloon with a hatchet and destroyed liquor bottles.
Prohibition

4. Political & Social Reform
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
W.E.B. Du Bois: and others wanted equality for African Americans & were upset about being ignored by progressive reform.
Aimed for nothing less than full equality among races.
Little support in the movement, because it focused on the needs of middle-class whites.
TR, Taft & Wilson also did little to advance the goal of racial equality.

5. Political & Social Reform
Women’s Rights
Women were upset that the 14th & 15th Amendments, (equal rights & voting rights) to African American men, but excluded women.
Susan B. Anthony led woman suffrage: the right to vote.
Three-Part Strategy:
1. convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote.
2. pursue court cases to test 14th amendment—if states denied male citizens the right to vote they would lose congressional representation…weren’t women citizens too?
3. pushed for constitutional amendment to grant women right to vote.
19th Amendment 1920: women get the right to vote.
Crash Course Suffrage