1. Progressive Movement Social Problems

2. Goals of the Progressive Movement A government controlled by the people Guaranteed economic opportunities through government regulation Elimination of Social Injustices

3. Women’s Movement Women were the leaders of the Progressive Movement

4. Social Injustices for Women No right to Vote Destruction of family by alcohol, drugs, and violence Children worked all day and had no education Earned less money than men

5. Susan B. Anthony Leader of the Women’s Movement Encouraged women to enter work force during World War I

6. Accomplishments of Women’s Movement 18 th Amendment –prohibition; eliminated sale of alcohol in the United States 19 th Amendment –women got the right to vote

7. Accomplishments of Women’s Movement Women gained equal rights as men legally but were still kept out of power by men

8. African American Problems The Era of Jim Crow

9. What is Jim Crow? Laws that legally separated whites and blacks in public places Designed to keep blacks as second class citizens

10. Enforced through lynchings –A–Attacks on blacks who tried to violate Jim Crow

14. Plessy VS Ferguson (1896) Free black sued to challenge the legality of Jim Crow Laws

15. Plessy VS Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court ruled the “separate but equal” laws did not violate 14 th amendment

18. African American Leaders

19. Ida B Wells Led an anti- lynching campaign Investigated and reported lynchings for various newspapers

20. Ida B Wells Forced federal gov’t to take action

21. Booker T Washington Accepted segregation

22. Booker T Washington Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education and economic success

23. W.E.B. Dubois First black to receive PHD from Harvard Vocational education was meaningless without equality

24. W.E.B. Dubois Helped found National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

25. Accomplishments of Progressive Movement People gained more power in local and state governments Government abandoned policy of laissez-faire capitalism Government was forced to serve people’s needs in order to avoid another American Revolution