Chapter 8 1 The Roots of Progressivism Pgs
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Chapter 8. 1 The Roots of Progressivism Pgs. 292 – 299
The Rise of Progressivism �Who Were the Progressives? �People opposed to Social Darwinism � Urbanization + Industrialization = Social Problems �Middle class people � Government needs to step up � Had little faith in government �Science & Technology save the day
The Muckrakers �Muckrakers – stir up the muck in a pond �Think “investigative journalist” �Uncovered corruption � Illegal/unethical business practices �Jacob Riis on pg. 293 �The Shame of the Cities
Reforming Government �Making Government Efficient �Breaking down jobs/responsibility �Municipal Changes � Commission & Council-Manager �Democratic Reforms �In the States � Direct Primary – people should choose who is on the ballot � Initiative – people introduce bills for leg. to vote on � Referendum – people vote on laws w/o the legislature � Recall – remove officials �Federal Changes � 17 th Amendment – people directly elect Senators
Suffrage �Early Problems �Politics is the mans world �Unfeminine? �Abolition & suffrage � 14 th & 15 Amendments to save the day � Or are they? � 2 Camps � Amend the Constitution or State by State?
Cont. �Building support �NAWSA and its struggles � You want change, you’re going to need the vote �Marches & Protests �Carrie Chapman Catt � Last big push �State by state leads to Constitutional Amendment
Reforming Society �Child Labor �Worse & worse jobs � “Breaker Boys” � God Must work in some other mine �States begin to pass laws �Health & Safety Codes �Hurt on the job? Too Darn Bad �Role of unions �Lochner v. New York & Muller v. Oregon �New legislation
Cont. �The Prohibition Movement �Alcohol & abuse � Bad husbands & Poor workers �Who drank? � Enter the Irish… aren’t they immigrants �Temperance & Prohibition get rid of Alcohol
Cont. �Progressives Versus Big Business �Sherman Anti-Trust Act & ICC �Perhaps Socialism � Eugene Debs � Perhaps not
