Progressive and the Gilded Age

Chapter 20-21

I. Progressives

1. Society’s ills needed to be cured

2. Progressives

3. Rational planning; social engineering

4. Middle Class

Progressives (cont’d)

5. Beliefs1. Anger over Industrialization

2. Reject Social Darwinism

3. Citizens get involved in reform

4. Persuasion;force

II. Reasons for Change

1. Science

2. Evangelical Protestantism1. Both sought behavior control

3. Journalism1. Muckraking

2. Ida Tarbell

4. Joseph Pulitzer

5. Jacob Riis

6. Upton Sinclair 7. William

Randolph Hearst1. Creates sections

2. War with Pulitzer

8. Exposed bad side of American life;

helped Progressive Movement

III. Social Gospel

1. Kingdom of Godsocial justice

2. Jane Addams

3. Settle House Movement1. Hull House

2. Culture/refinement to the poor

http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/settlement_house_movement.html

Social Gospel (cont’d)

5. Social UpliftSocial Reform6. Focus on

1. Education2. Health3. Work

7. Other middle-class--educated—bored womenSettlement Houses

8. Women become the influence of the Progressive Movement

Social Gospel (cont’d)

9. Public Education

10.Poor kids/immigrants

11.Assimilatemiddle-class

values

IV. Other Reforms

1. City Beautification1. Parks

2. Playgrounds

3. Nature, etc…

2. Garbage collection/street lights

3. Prostitution

Other Reforms (cont’d)

4. Mann Act, 1910

V. Temperance

1. Public temperanceprohibition

2. Stop: consumption,

Production, sale of alcohol

3. Improving societyProgress

4. 18th Amendment

5. Production/Sale/

transportation of alcohol

VI. Women’s Suffrage

1. 15th Amendment omits women

2. 1869-WY; 1st to enfranchise women

3. 1890-WY becomes state during Pr.M.

4. 1869-AWSA: American Women’s Suffrage Association

5. NWSA: National Women’s Suffrage Association

VII. Segregation

1. Lynching

2. Kept blacks socially/politically inferior1. Poll taxes

2. Intimidation

3. Literacy tests

3. Jim Crow laws—segregation laws

Segregation (cont’d)

4. Plessy v. Ferguson-18961. “Separate but Equal”

VIII. Booker T. Washington

1. Accept segregation, if EQUAL

2. Thrift, hardwork, economic progress, need skills and education

3. Tuskegee Institute, 1881

IX. WEB DuBois

1. 1st black to graduate from Harvard

2. 1909-helps establish bi-racial NAACP

3. Remove legal, racial, economic barriers to equality.