1. Progressive Era Changes
Unit 7.1

2. Reasons of Reform Protect social welfare Promote moral improvement
Foster Efficiency
Economic Reform

3. Sources for Reform - I World-wide Socialist Movement Labor Unions
Karl Marx Communist Manifesto effect
Income differences from Industrial Revolution
Labor Unions
Knights of Labor, AFL, IWW
African American groups
Niagara Movement and W.E.B. DuBois
Immigrant surge
Settlement Houses (Hull House and Jane Addams)

4. Sources for reform II Media Political Machine Corruption Backlash
Increase in newspapers and magazines
Political Machine Corruption Backlash
Tammany Hall, Stalwarts, Mugwumps, Populists
Disagreement with Social Darwinism
Corporations and Monopolies
Post Civil War Boom and Bust economy
Panics of 1873 and 1893, Coxey’s Army
Industrial Age Income gap
Robber Barons to Tenement Houses

5. How were the Progressives and Populist alike and different?

6. Muckrakers
Termed coined by Teddy Roosevelt for reported that exposed the wrong-doings in society
Many magazines such as McClure’s and Collier’s ran expose’
Books that showed problems
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser showed plight of single women in cities
The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens and
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis showed urban plight

7. Famous Muckrakers Upton Sinclair The Jungle (1906) Ida Tarbell
About the meat-packing industry and against idea of caveat emptor
Two laws directly related:
Meat Inspection Act 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act 1906
Ida Tarbell
History of the Standard Oil Company (1902)
Against monopolies
Why?

8. Social Gospel Effects
The idea of assisting the Economically or Socially disadvantaged
Main leaders: White middle-class protestant women
Involved in new Social Science fields and Social Work
Would be key in several movements during the Progressive era
Antimonopoly
Suffrage
Temperance
Settlement House movement
Many in leadership roles

9. African-Americans Booker T. Washington – idea of self-help
Tuskegee Institute
Atlanta Compromise
W.E.B. DuBois – push for civil rights
Niagara movement and start of the NAACP
Marcus Garvey – 1920s, separation idea emerges
Guinn v. U.S. case – made Grandfather Clause illegal
But was there much support from the WASPs?
Was the Progressive movement actually bad for black Americans?

10. Suffrage Movement Background
Seneca Falls Convention and Declaration of Sentiments
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the 1800s
Women’s Universities
Western Women ability to vote
National American Women Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA)
Carrie Chapman Catt
National Women’s Party
Alice Paul
Later pushes for ERA - _____ _____ ____
19th Amendment (1920)
How did women end up voting?

11. Labor Changes Unions push for safety Taylorism / Scientific Management
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 1911 – 146 killed
Taylorism / Scientific Management
Idea of efficiency
Henry Ford and the assembly line
Child Labor
(Mother) Mary Jones
Keating –Owen Act (1916)
Later overturned by S.C., but impact felt
More mandatory schooling

12. Temperance Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) 18th Amendment
Frances Willard
18th Amendment
Passes in 1920
Volstead Act
Enforcement of Amendment
Why approved?
Any aspect with immigrants?

13. Reflection Questions
What was the background to all the changes that took place in the Progressive movement?
Can some of the Progressive Movement changes be traced to race and how?
Why and how were women involved in the Progressive Movement changes?
How did muckrakers make an impact and what are some examples of the changes?

14. Links http://soomopublishing.com/suffrage/ - parody
– another parody
– another suffrage parody
– Review lesson