Warm Up 0 In your Progressive Era Notes, turn to your Common Vocabulary Unit 3 page. 0 What do the following words mean? Write definitions down in your own words. 0 You may use your phone or a dictionary to look up words you don’t know. 0 Characterized 0 Economy 0 Expansion 0 Minority 0 Isolationism

Progressive Era Day 2: Helping the poor, Women’s Suffrage, Racial Relations and Nativism

Social Reforms and Changes Helping the Poor 0 Leaders for Social Change 0 Jane Addams – co-founder of Hull House which helped new immigrant women with job skills, educational, and artistic programs to become successful and productive citizens. Urban Social Movement 0 Frances Willard – suffragette and member of the WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union) Jane Addams Frances Willard

Social Reforms and Changes Helping the Poor Progressive Improvements: 0 Worker’s compensations to aid families of workers who were hurt or killed while on the job. 0 Social welfare groups: aimed to help the poor ( Social Gospel) 1. Community centers 2. Churches 3. Social services 4. YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) 5. Salvation Army

Discussion Question Why do you think women were the leaders in helping the poor or making social changes during the Progressive era instead of men?

Social Reforms and Changes Women’s Movement to Vote 0 Women did not have the right to vote during this time. They began fighting for women’s suffrage 0 Suffrage – Right to vote in political elections 0 Cause – due to industrialization, many women changed from homebound producers to wage- earning consumers, and women gained the right to vote. 0 Effect – women became social and even political reformers; worked outside of the home; affected the economy; with suffrage, women had a voice in politics

Social Reforms and Changes Women’s Movement to Vote 0 Leaders of the Movement 0 Susan B. Anthony – American reformer and leader of the women’s suffrage movement 0 Ida B. Wells – American reformer and leader in the anti-lynching crusade and women’s suffrage movement

Social Reforms and Changes Women’s Movement to Vote 0 Strategy for suffrage 0 Public Protests that were non-violent 0 Assembly – forming organizations, holding rallies 0 Push for a constitutional amendment 0 Convince legislatures to grant suffrage 0 Court cases to test 14 th amendment – weren’t women citizens too??

Social Reforms and Changes Women’s Movement to Vote 0 Opposition to Women’s Suffrage 0 Liquor industry 0 Textile industry – child labor ***** men feared the changing role of women ***** 0 19 th Amendment passed in 1920 – Which gives women the right to vote.

Discussion Question 0 How successful are non-violent protests and rallies in making a change in government or getting what one wants? 0 Why?

Social Reforms and Changes Racial Relations and Nativism Nativism 0 Cause – increase of immigration (especially Asian immigrants) “Natives” worried that the immigrants would take their jobs. 0 Effect – increased discrimination against immigrants and minorities, Ku Klux Klan flourished (Nativism) 0 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 – the first major law restricting immigration to the United States. It was enacted in response to economic fears, especially on the West Coast, where native-born Americans attributed unemployment and declining wages to Chinese workers, whom they also viewed as racially inferior.

Social Reforms and Changes Racial Relations and Nativism Racial Relations 0 A large movement of African Americans to industrial north to escape the oppressive south, called The Great Migration

Social Reforms and Changes Racial Relations and Nativism 0 Booker T. Washington 0 Stress on economic/educational opportunity 0 Industrial education, start from the bottom 0 W.E.B. DuBois – helped found the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). 0 He encouraged a liberal arts education for African American civil rights leaders. Encouraged people to think differently about African Americans. African American Leaders who wanted better treatment Washington was willing to wait for equal rights for African Americans DuBois wanted equal rights immediately

Discussion Question 0 How did W.E.B Dubois affect American Society?

Social Reforms and Changes Racial Relations and Nativism Social Darwinism (belief that all personal and social problems are inherited/genetic) 0 Cause – a desire to maintain the economic and social divisions in society (from the point of view of the wealthy, “the rich get richer”) 0 Effect – increased the popularity of the eugenics movement Eugenics (study of human improvement by genetic means) 0 Cause – an attempt to better society and the human race 0 Effect – discrimination towards those who did not fit the “perfect” human mold (extreme case was Hitler’s actions in the Holocaust)

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Critical Writing Question for Day 2 0 Day 2: Which of the following Progressive era reformers had the longest lasting effect on the U.S.? Why? Frances WillardJane AddamsIda B. Wells W.E.B. DuboisUpton Sinclair Booker T. WashingtonSusan B. Anthony