ORIGINS AND GOALS OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT PROGRESSIVE

ORIGINS AND GOALS OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT

PROGRESSIVE What does the word mean to you? What do you think the goals were for these people? What would it take to force change at the turn of the century?

WHAT ISSUES NEEDED TO BE CHANGED AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY?

INDUSTRIALIZATION

CITY PROBLEMS

MORE GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY

THE PROGRESSIVE REFORMERS Who Were They? Educational Reformers Wanted reform of the environment The Muckrakers City and State Reformers Political Reformers Middle Class and College Educated

PROGRESSIVISM M u c k r a c k e r s S u f f r a g e t t e s P o p u l i s t s T e m p e r a n c e S o c i a l i s t s ? ? M i d c l a s s W o m e n L a b o r U n i o n s C i v i l R i g h t s

FOUR PROGRESSIVE GOALS End Abuse of Power by the Industrialists Replace Corrupt Power with Reformed Ideas Make the solution to problems more about the good of the people and not for the rich Change the conditions that existed in the cities and bring child labor under control

MUCKRACKERS

TYPES OF REFORMERS Muckrakers S. S. Mc. Clure Ida Tarbell Jacob Riis Upton Sinclair Lincoln Steffens Edward Bellamy

RIIS’ PHOTOS

PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL REFORM

POLITICAL REFORMERS Robert M. La. Follette Socialist Party /Eugene V. Debs NAACP /William E. B. Du. Bois Booker T. Washington

REFORMING ELECTIONS Secret Ballot-introduced a secret system of voting Initiative-allowed 5% of voters to "initiate" laws in state legislatures Referendum---in some states voters could then pass initiatives into laws Recall-by petition voters could force an official to stand for re-election at any time Direct primary- to give voters control over candidates

SOCIAL AND MORAL REFORM

SOCIAL WELFARE Jane Addams- Hull House John Dewey- Education Reform The Law: Muller vs. Oregon and Keating-Owens Act Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Florence Kelly

MORAL REFORM Temperance Movement Prohibition Carrie Nation/Frances Willard

SALOONS

IMMIGRANTS AT ELLIS ISLAND

Was it really that bad? WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

THIS IS NOT A NEW IDEA In 1851, Elizabeth Cady Stanton started working with Susan B. Anthony, a well-known abolitionist. The two women made a great team. Anthony managed the business affairs of the women's rights movement while Stanton did most of the writing. Together they edited and published a woman's newspaper, the Revolution, from 1868 to 1870. In 1869, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. They traveled all over the country and abroad, promoting woman's rights .

MOVEMENT GETS NEW LIFE College Educated Women see suffrage as a civil right Door to Door Campaigns New Tactics from Europe

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE NAWSA: Carrie Chapman Catt Organization Close tie to local, state and national workers Wide base of support Lobbying Ladylike behavior Alice Paul/National Woman’s Party Bold tactics used in Europe National pressure only Blamed the Democrats Picketing of White House Hunger strikes

ANTI-SUFFRAGIST CARTOONS

EARLY SUCCESS

IMAGES OF THE MOVEMENT

THE 19 TH AMENDMENT Wilson not overly supportive of suffrage WWI Passed 1919 and Ratification August 1920