1. Chapter 21 The Progressive Era

2. Background: Mugwumps-supporters of government reform Provides idea for good government and reform to change society for the better

3. Features of Progressivism: *Democracy How to get people more involved in the process of government *Efficiency/Knowledge Taylorism inspires a look at how to streamline gov. & society

4. *Social Improvement Everything is based on the assumption that society can be improved *Anti-Monopoly Progressives feel monopolies are bad for the country

5. Social Gospel Mix of social responsibility and religion “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

6. Walter Rauschenbusch

7. Nature vs. Nurture

8. Settlement House Movement

9. Jane Addams

10. Hull House 1889

11. Helps immigrants learn the language and customs Often staffed by educated women of the middle or upper class Helps bring about the Social worker

12. Settlement House in New York

13. Eleanor Roosevelt

14. MUCKRAKERS

15. Jacob Riis How the Other half Lives

16. Home of an Italian Rag Picker

17. Mullen’s Alley

18. Bandit’s Roost Mulberry Street

19. 5 cent Lodging Bayard St

20. Basement Pub 3:00 am Mulberry St

21. A plank for a bed

22. Women’s lodging room W. 47 th St

23. What boys learn on their street playground

24. Mulberry Bend

25. Peddler in the Cellar Ludlow St

26. Ida Tarbell

27. Lincoln Steffens The Shame of Cities

28. Upton Sinclair

29. Published 1906

31. By end of 19 th century an increase in administrative and professional occupations

32. New middle class puts high value on education Want standards set for professionals

33. 1901 American Medical Association By 1920 2/3 of doctors members

34. 1916 Bar Association

35. Businessmen set up the Chamber of Commerce

36. These organizations not only set standards but keep out Blacks, Women and Immigrants

37. Women & Professions *1900 5% of doctors are female

38. *Teaching – 2/3 of all teachers 90% of all professional women *Social work *nursing *librarian

39. Progressives and government How to make government more responsive to the people and take control from political machines?

40. *Secret ballot *Initiative *Referendum *Recall *Direct Primary *City Manager

41. The most Progressive state in the country is: Wisconsin Have worker’s comp, regulations on workplace, and inheritance tax

42. Robert La Follette

43. Part of the result of attacks on party and machines plus the success of various Progressive groups is the rise of the special interest group

44. Women and Reform

45. Changes in lives of women of middleclass *children starting school earlier *Tech makes housework easier *may have domestic help *had fewer children Have time to get involved

46. Women’s Clubs Start as social/cultural organizations Become interested in social betterment

47. Because they are upper and middle class have funds for the group Because women can’t vote it is seen as nonpolitical

48. Much work is noncontroversial: Plant tress, support schools & libraries, raise money for hospital and parks

49. Also work for ‘nurturing’ issues: Child labor Better working conditions Pension for widows and orphans

52. Some educated women stay single 10% of American women did not marry

53. Women’s Suffrage Women claim same natural rights as men Other say women have a “special sphere” as wife and mother-shouldn’t vote

54. Supporters claim that this “special sphere” will be useful Gives women a unique view point Will help with temperance and ending war

55. Anti-suffrage people link the movement to divorce, neglect of children and promiscuity

56. ational merican oman uffrage ssociation NAWSA

57. Carrie Chapman Catt

58. Alice Paul

59. Susan B. Anthony

65. Emily Davidson - 1913 Derby

67. 1920 – 19 th Amendment ratified Women have the right to vote

68. African Americans and reform

69. Booker T. Washington

70. Atlanta Compromise: Work for immediate improvement not far off social change

71. W.E.B. DuBois

72. Feels Washington’s approach encourages whites to impose segregation Get an education Become a professional Fight for immediate civil rights

73. Niagara Movement – 1905 1909 NAACP founded

74. Temperance Movement Who supports it: *women *businessmen *Political reformers

75. 1873 Women’s Christian Temperance Movement Union

76. Carry A. Nation

81. Daddy's in there. Our shoes, and stockings and clothes and food are in there, too, and they'll never come out.“

82. By 1916 19 states have passed prohibition laws Moral fervor from WWI, Progressives and rural fundamentalist team up 18 th Amendment starts Jan 1920

83. Socialism Growth in party 1900 100,000 votes 1912 1,000,000 votes

84. All agree there must be economic change but can’t agree on what kind or how

85. Eugene V. Debs

86. Industrial Workers of the World

87. ‘Big Bill’ Haywood

88. Wobblies want: *single union for all workers *abolition of Slave wage system *rejection of political action in favor of general strike

89. " Shall you kneel in deep submission, from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?" Joe Hill

92. Louis Brandeis Other People’s Money