Progressive Reformers

Reforms In Society

Walter Rauschenbusch

“Social Gospel”He believed that by following the Bible’s teachings of charity and justice people could make society a

better place.

Many people followed his teachings and started urging for a shorter work week and the end of

child labor.

Reforms In Society

Jane Addams

Settlement HouseCommunity center that provided social

services for the poor

Hull House in Chicago

Reforms in Society

Child Labor ReformHer work lead to:1. the state of Illinois passing the first factory

law prohibiting employment of children under age 14.

2. First women factory inspector3. 10 hour work day for women

Florence Kelley

Reforms in Society

March 1911. A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City shocked Americans. When the fire started workers had little chance to escape because the managers had locked most of the exits. One hundred and forty six workers, mostly women, were trapped and died. (Prentice Hall, 421)

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Reforms: NY made workplace safer, workers compensation laws, laws limiting workday hours.

Quick WriteUsing your notes organizer answer the following

question in your quick write. How did muckrakers and progressive reformers

help the urban poor? List 2 of the 3 reformers and/or muckrakers and give examples of what they did.

Hint words: photographer, settlement house, social gospel, fire

Reform Government

Progressive reformersReform political

process to reform society

Galveston Texas

This hurricane wiped out Galveston. More than 8,000 people were killed. The city realized it

didn’t have the structure in place to take care of rebuilding so they replaced the mayor and board

of aldermen for a commission.

New city governments took the power away from big bosses and political

machines.

This model of government was adopted in over 500 cities.

Reforms in Government

Direct primary

Initiative referendum recall

In state and local races,

citizens voted for candidates

rather than party leaders.

Citizens could propose a new

law for the next ballot

with enough signatures.

Citizens could approve or reject laws passed by legislation.

Power for citizens to

remove public

servants from office

Laboratory of DemocracyRobert La Follette

Reforms - Women’s SuffrageProgressive Women

Florence Kelley Margaret Sanger Ida B. Wells

Opened the first birth control clinic in Tucson, AZ 1936

• 1896, helped form National Association of Colored Women• Blocked segregated schools in Chicago• One of 1st black women to run for office.

National Consumers League (NCL)

19th Amendment

June 1919 Congress Approved the 19th Amendment

November 2, 1920 Women were able to vote in their first presidential election.

African Americans-Reform

Booker T. Washington W.E.B Du Bois

African Americans-Reform

Booker T. Washington

•Told blacks to have patience.

• Learn trade skills.

• Eventually with respect and hard work blacks would win the respect of the whites and be given their full rights.

•Born into slavery.• Worked in manual labor and attended seminary.

African Americans-Reform

W.E.B Du Bois

• Wanted blacks to immediately demand the rights guaranteed by the constitution.

• Raised in New England• Went to Harvard

Niagara Movement

They met at Niagara Falls, but had to stay in Canada since none of the US hotels would give them a room.

Worried that black men in the south were being denied the right to vote Du Bois and

others formed the Niagara Movement.

This group disagreed with the gradual idea that Booker T Washington proposed. They wanted immediate change.

Plus, they didn’t just want to teach trade skills but rather educate black men.

This movement never got the backing it needed to be successful.

1905

NAACPNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Formed 1909• Progressive Reforms and the Niagara

Movement helped form NAACP.• Intention: protect the lives of blacks, secure

civil rights, and win the right to vote.

#2 Quick Write

If you were living in the Progressive Era whose cause would you want to be involved in? Explain your passion for this social reform and why you

would join forces with this progressive reformer.