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SOCIAL REFORM

SOCIAL REFORM. Progressive Era. Social Problem: IMMIGRANT POVERTY AND URBAN SLUMS. Progressives set up “settlement houses” Homes placed in immigrant neighborhoods, where middle-class women help immigrants. Immigrants live in ghettoes, city slums Immigrants experience culture shock

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SOCIAL REFORM

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  1. SOCIAL REFORM Progressive Era

  2. Social Problem:IMMIGRANT POVERTY AND URBAN SLUMS Progressives set up “settlement houses” Homes placed in immigrant neighborhoods, where middle-class women help immigrants • Immigrants live in ghettoes, city slums • Immigrants experience culture shock • Immigrants don’t have child care or English language programs

  3. Jane ADDAMS & Hull HOUSE

  4. Jane ADDAMS

  5. Hull HOUSE

  6. Social Problem: alcoholism Progressives want to encourage people to moderate their drinking (TEMPERANCE) Later, they want people to stop completely (TEETOTALER= “total” abstinence from alcohol) • People work hard and have hard lives • They want (and need) to drink • Immigrants from Europe bring traditions of drinking from the old country

  7. Promoting Moral Improvement

  8. Temperance?

  9. 18th Amendment (1919) • Some reformers blamed alcohol for many of society’s problems • Prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” within the United States • Repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment

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