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 What does the word mean to you?  What do you think the goals were for these people?  What would it take to force change at the turn of the century?

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2  What does the word mean to you?  What do you think the goals were for these people?  What would it take to force change at the turn of the century?

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8 Who Were They?  Educational Reformers  Wanted reform of the environment  The Muckrakers  City and State Reformers  Political Reformers  Middle Class and College Educated

9 MuckrackersMuckrackers TemperanceTemperance SuffragettesSuffragettes PopulistsPopulists MidclassWomenMidclassWomen LaborUnionsLaborUnions CivilRightsCivilRights S o c i a l i s t s ??

10  End Abuse of Power by the Industrialists  Replace Corrupt Power with Reformed Ideas  Make the solution to problems more about the good of the people and not for the rich  Change the conditions that existed in the cities and bring child labor under control

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12 Muckrakers S. S. McClure Ida Tarbell Jacob Riis Upton Sinclair Lincoln Steffens Edward Bellamy

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15 Robert M. LaFollette Socialist Party /Eugene V. Debs NAACP /William E. B. DuBois Booker T. Washington

16  Secret Ballot-introduced a secret system of voting  Initiative-allowed 5% of voters to "initiate" laws in state legislatures  Referendum---in some states voters could then pass initiatives into laws  Recall-by petition voters could force an official to stand for re-election at any time  Direct primary- to give voters control over candidates

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18  Jane Addams- Hull HouseHull House  John Dewey- Education Reform  The Law: Muller vs. Oregon and Keating-Owens Act  Mary Harris "Mother" JonesMother" Jones  Florence Kelly

19  Temperance Movement  Prohibition  Carrie Nation/Frances Willard

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22 Was it really that bad?

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24  In 1851, Elizabeth Cady Stanton started working with Susan B. Anthony, a well-known abolitionist.  The two women made a great team.  Anthony managed the business affairs of the women's rights movement while Stanton did most of the writing.  Together they edited and published a woman's newspaper, the Revolution, from 1868 to 1870.  In 1869, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. They traveled all over the country and abroad, promoting woman's rights.

25  College Educated Women see suffrage as a civil right  Door to Door Campaigns  New Tactics from Europe

26  NAWSA: Carrie Chapman Catt  Organization  Close tie to local, state and national workers  Wide base of support  Lobbying  Ladylike behavior  Alice Paul/National Woman’s Party Alice Paul  Bold tactics used in Europe  National pressure only  Blamed the Democrats  Picketing of White House  Hunger strikes Hunger strikes

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31  Wilson not overly supportive of suffrage  WWI  Passed 1919 and Ratification August 1920


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