1. Progressivism Sweeps the Nation
Conservatives beware! Whether they liked it or not, the turn of the 20th century was an age of reform. Urban reformers and Populists had already done much to raise attention to the nation's most pressing problems.
ushistory.org. Progressivism Sweeps the Nation. U.S. History Online Textbook. Wednesday, December 02, 2015.

2. Progressivism
Progressives believed that the problems society faced (poverty, violence, greed, racism, class warfare) could best be addressed by providing good education, a safe environment, and an efficient workplace.
This idea shaped the development of American society and impacted civil rights for women and blacks during a time of struggle and hardship.
Theodore Roosevelt
Grew up in Gilded Age and regarded commercial ideas as “mean and sordid.” Often considered the greatest progressive in American History, Roosevelt supported the Meat Inspection Act, worker’s rights, women’s suffrage, and national health care. He pushed executive powers to new limits, taking on the captains of industry and argued for greater government control over the economy. Also believed that a strong defense was the best guarantee of peace, he built up the Navy and sent it around the world.
Roosevelt is a strong combination of the beliefs that the majority of Democrats and Republicans share now.

3. NAWSA National American Woman Suffrage Association
Merger between NWSA and AWSA (founded by Lucy Stone/Henry Blackwell and Susan B. Anthony/ Elizabeth C. Stanton respectively)
Stanton & Anthony both took shots at presidency, and helped ignite the flame of progressivism. From , 8 of the 48 United States were is support of women’s suffrage.

4. W.E.B. Du Bois Born in Massachusetts (1868)
Preferred America’s economy being more about industry than agriculture.
He opposed Booker. T. Washington’s beliefs that segregation was necessary.
1895; Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Introduced the concept of the “talented teeth.”
Du Bois was a poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, sociologist, historian, and journalist.
Believed Washington’s strategies would prolong slavery.
Emphasized the need for higher education to develp the leadership capacity among black Americans.

5. cont. Niagara Movement & NAACP
1905; Du Bois and a group of 30 men met at Niagara falls in effort to cause an immediate end to all forms of discrimination.
Four years later, the members of the Niagara movement formed the National Association for the advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Towards the end of his life, Du Bois began to lose hope that African Americans would ever see full equality in the United States, causing him to move to Ghana where he died at the age of 96.

6. Booker T. Washington Born into slavery April 5, 1856.
Completed school and became a teacher and believed in practical education.
Established the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama at the age of 25.
September 18, 1895; Washington spoke at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, giving the “Atlanta Compromise” address.
1901; Published autobiography “Up From Slavery.”
Died in 1915
Beliefs
Racial solidarity
Self-help

7. Washington vs. Du Bois

9. Works Cited
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