1. The Progressive Era zIntroduction zWomen and Reform Prohibition Settlement House Movement zProgressivism zThe Muckrakers zWorking Women and Children

2. Women’s Christian Temperance Union

3. Settlement House Movement

4. Settlement Houses zJane Addams- Hull House in Chicago zLillian Wald- Henry St. Settlement in NYC zDennison House- Boston

5. Purpose of Settlement Houses zTo help immigrants, especially women and children, to adjust to life in America

6. Purpose of Settlement Houses zTo help immigrants, especially women and children, to adjust to life in America zTo give the growing number of educated young women meaningful employment

7. The Muckrakers zJournalists and authors who exposed the evils of urban and industrial America

8. The Muckrakers zJournalists and authors who exposed the evils of urban and industrial America zLincoln Steffans: The Shame of the Cities

9. The Muckrakers zJournalists and authors who exposed the evils of urban and industrial America zLincoln Steffans: The Shame of the Cities zIda Tarbell: Wealth versus Commonwealth

10. The Muckrakers zJournalists and authors who exposed the evils of urban and industrial America zLincoln Steffans: The Shame of the Cities zIda Tarbell: Wealth versus Commonwealth zFrank Norris: The Octopus

11. The Muckrakers zJournalists and authors who exposed the evils of urban and industrial America zLincoln Steffans: The Shame of the Cities zIda Tarbell: Wealth versus Commonwealth zFrank Norris: The Octopus zUpton Sinclair: The Jungle

15. Reasons why child labor reform was unsuccessful

16. zBusiness too dependent on child labor

17. Reasons why child labor reform was unsuccessful zBusiness too dependent on child labor zCourts reluctant to interfere in private contract between employee and employer

18. Reasons why child labor reform was unsuccessful zBusiness too dependent on child labor zCourts reluctant to interfere in private contract between employee and employer zFamilies needed the extra income

19. Women and Work zFlorence Kelley-led the drive for shorter hours for working women

20. Women and Work zFlorence Kelley-led the drive for shorter hours for working women zMuller v. Oregon: 1908

21. Women and Work zFlorence Kelley-led the drive for shorter hours for working women zMuller v. Oregon: 1908 zSupreme Court held that states could require shorter working hours for women because they were the “weaker sex”