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Progressive and the Gilded Age Chapter 20-21
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I. Progressives 1.Society’s ills needed to be cured 2.Progressives 3.Rational planning; social engineering 4.Middle Class
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Progressives (cont’d) 5.Beliefs 1.Anger over Industrialization 2.Reject Social Darwinism 3.Citizens get involved in reform 4.Persuasion;force
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II. Reasons for Change 1.Science 2.Evangelical Protestantism 1.Both sought behavior control 3.Journalism 1.Muckraking 2.Ida Tarbell
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4.Joseph Pulitzer 5.Jacob Riis 6.Upton Sinclair 7.William Randolph Hearst 1.Creates sections 2.War with Pulitzer 8.Exposed bad side of American life; helped Progressive Movement
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III. Social Gospel 1.Kingdom of God social justice 2.Josephine Lowell 3.Jane Addams 4.Settle House Movement 1.Hull House 2.Culture/refinement to the poor
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Social Gospel (cont’d) 5.Social Uplift Social Reform 6.Focus on 1.Education 2.Health 3.Work 7.Other middle-class--educated—bored women Settlement Houses 8.Women become the influence of the Progressive Movement
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Social Gospel (cont’d) 9. Public Education 10.Poor kids/immigrants 11.Assimilate middle-class values
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IV. Other Reforms 1.City Beautification 1.Parks 2.Playgrounds 3.Nature, etc… 2.Garbage collection/street lights
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Other Reforms (cont’d) 3.Prostitution-another “social evil” 4.“White slave trade”? 5.Progressives: immigration and prostitution 6.“White Slave Trade”—only reason women sold their body
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Other Reforms (cont’d) 7.Why women sold themselves? 1.Poverty 2.Desperation 3.Ignorance 8.Progressives pray/protest brothels
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Other Reforms (cont’d) 9.Mann Act, 1910. 1.Banned interstate Transport of females For “immoral purposes”
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V. Temperance 1.Public temperance prohibition 2.Women’s Christian Temperance Movement (WCTM) 3.1873-Chicago 4.Frances Willard-Head 5.Stop: consumption, Production, sale of alcohol
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Temperance 6.State to prohibit 7.Improving society Progress
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Temperance 8.Anti-Saloon League 9.Alcohol Consumption Increases!
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10.18 th Amendment 11. Production/Sale/ transportation of alcohol
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VI. Women’s Suffrage 1.15 th Amendment omits women 2.1869-WY; 1 st to enfranchise women 3.1890-WY becomes state during Pr.M. 4.1869-AWSA: American Women’s Suffrage Association 5.NWSA: National Women’s Suffrage Association
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Women’s Suffrage (cont’d) 6.“Revolution”-(failed after 2 yrs.) 7.Nov. 1, 1872- Susan B. Anthony 8.S.B. Anthony allies with WCTU VOTE 9.1890-NWSA & AWSA merge-NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
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Women’s Suffrage (cont’d) 10.Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1 st president 11. 1890-college attendance; nurses; doctors, scientists 12.Anti-suffragists 1.Harms sex roles 2.Not progress 13.1890-19 states allow some voting… 14.Must wait 18 more years…
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VII. Segregation 1.Lynching 2.Kept blacks socially/politically inferior 1.Poll taxes 2.Intimidation 3.Literacy tests 3.Jim Crow laws—segregation laws
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Segregation (cont’d) 4.Plessy v. Ferguson-1896 1.“Separate but Equal” 5.Southerners believed blacks ignorant 6.Race hatred becomes accepted 7.Ida Wells 1.Exposed lynchings 2.Premeditated & planned—not spontaneous
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VIII. Booker T. Washington 1.Accept segregation, if EQUAL 2.Don’t challenge segregation until blacks became educated, powerful, self-improved 3.Passive approached 4.Thrift, hardwork, economic progress, need skills and education 5.Tuskegee Institute, 1881 6.Temp. adhere to segregation; whites believed he represented all blacks
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IX. WEB DuBois 1.1 st black to graduate from Harvard 2.Led Niagara Falls Movement 1.“Anti-Bookerites” 2.Uncompromising demand for civil/political equality 3.1909-helps establish bi-racial NAACP 4.Remove legal, racial, economic barriers to equality.
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