SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REFORMS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REFORMS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

WOMEN AS SOCIAL REFORMERS • Jane Addams • Chicago Hull House • Settlement Home- Center where immigrants/poor workers could get help • Responsible for Chicago’s First: • • • first public baths first public playground first public kitchen first college extension courses first public swimming pool first gymnasium for the public a kindergarten and nursery, a music school art gallery contributed to founding the world’s first juvenile court taught English and citizenship and organized the Immigrants’ Protective League to assist immigrants with legal problems

WOMEN AS SOCIAL REFORMERS • Carrie Nation • Temperance Movement: wanted to limit/eliminate alcohol

• Cause: What kinds of job opportunities prompted more women to complete high school? • Effects: What social and economic effects did higher education have on women? • Infer: Why did suffrage leaders employ a three part strategy for gaining the right to vote? • (pg. 519 -522)

PROGRESSIVE AMENDMENTS • 16 th Amendment- Income Tax (1913) • 17 th Amendment- Direct Election of Senators- (1913) • 18 th Amendment- Prohibition (1919) • 19 th - Woman Suffrage (1920)

SOCIAL RACE ISSUES • Disenfranchisement • To deny a group of people the right to vote • Poll Taxes • Literacy Test • Grandfather clause allowed those who had voted before or whose ancestors had voted to vote.

SOCIAL RACE ISSUES • Segregation: • Plessy V. Ferguson • Supreme court established “separate but equal” was legal. • Jim Crow Laws: laws to establish segregation • Restaurants, hospitals, schools, transportation: Public Facilities • 2 Types of Segregation • De Facto: not law • Neighborhoods • De Jure: by law

III. African Americans during Progressivism • Booker T Washington • Former slave • Founded Tuskegee Institute • Trained in trades • W. E. B Du Bois • 1 st African American to get Ph. D from Harvard • Organized Niagara Movement- group for AA progress • Organized NAACP- progress of AA community • Founded The Crisis- NAACP magazine

• Ida Wells- Barnett • Women & civil rights activist • Campaigned against Plessy decision • Helped form Niagara Movement & NAACP • Marcus Garvey • Inspired “black pride” • “back to Africa movement”- encouraging AA to return to Africa • Instilled cultural pride in AA

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES III. Transportation • Automobiles- Henry Ford 1907 • Assembly Line Production • Saw employees as consumers • $5. 00/day • Airplanes • Wright Brothers 1903 • Kitty Hawk, NC • Commercial Air Travel 1926

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IV. Mass Culture • Mail Order Catalogues • Movies • The Great Train Robbery 1903 - 1 st motion pic. • Kodak- cameras to average customers • Coca-Cola- bottled soft drinks to masses • One of 1 st nationwide advertising campaign.

FIRST MOVIE