1. Chapter 18 The Age of Reform
Section One: The Progressive Movement

2. I. The Progressive Spirit
Focused on plight of workers, poor sanitation, corrupt political machines
Usually middle or upper class, college educated
Women and progressivism
Joined as a way to influence politics

3. II. Progressive Issues A dangerous workplace Social problems
Steel mill- 25% injured or killed a year
Wanted- 8 hr day, minimum wage, safer working conditions, end to child labor
Social problems
Election reforms
Science and technology to solve social problems

4. III. Inspiration for Reform
Muckraking press
Spread the message
McClure’s Magazine
“raked up” and exposed the muck, or filth of society
Tarbell and Standard Oil
Focused on business practices of
John D. Rockefeller
Muckraking books
Lincoln Steffens- Shame of Cities
Ray Stannard Baker- African American
Injustices, lynching

5. IV. Writers and Social Problems
Harsh effects of industrial society
Theodore Dreiser
Edith Wharton
Herbert Croly

6. Reforming the New Industrial Order
Section Two
Reforming the New Industrial Order

7. I. Reforming the Workplace
10 hrs a day, 6 days, $1.50 a day= men
Female and child laborers
Worked for less
Labor Laws
Limit child labor
Improve conditions
Limited hours
Higher wages- minimum-wage law

8. II. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
March 25, 1911, New York City
fire in the factory- workers stuck inside
143 workers die in fire

9. III. Progressivism and the Supreme Court
Most early legislation overturned
Fourteenth Amendment- “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”

10. IV. Labor Unions Fought for workers AFL- American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
ILGWU- International Ladies Garment Workers Union
“Uprising of 20,000”- strike
Mixed results
IWW- Industrial Workers of the World
Socialist
Short lived

11. Section Three
Reforming Society

12. I. Cleaning up the city Cleaning up City planning
Better housing, improve public education
Garbage collection ,health care, police, and fire protection
Playgrounds and parks
City planning
Park construction, building
codes, sanitation standards,
and zoning

13. II. Moral Reform The passage of prohibition Moviegoing
Anti-Saloon League and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Eighteenth Amendment- 1917
Repealed in 1933
Moviegoing
5 or 10 cent movie ticket
Nickelodeons
Reformers demanded that movies be censored

14. III. Progressives and Racial Discrimination
Views of Du Bois
African American influential leader
Early civil rights leader
African Americans organize
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People- NAACP- 1909
Used court system
National Urban League
Fought for civil rights
American Indians
1. Society of American Indians

15. IV. Immigrants and Assimilation
Mixed results
discrimination
Americanization- assimilation
1. Taught to read, write, and speak English

16. Assignment
You are to plan your own Industrial city. On a piece of paper sketch a city that will attract employers and residents. Include in your sketch all improvements that were covered in the last few chapters.
Should be included:
Jobs- Industrial center
Residential library
Parks Social Services- police station, Fire, etc.
Sports and leisure streets
Schools suburbs