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The Progressive Movement 1890s-1920 Ms. Jerome

The Progressive Movement 1890s-1920 Ms. Jerome. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900-1920. Ms. Jerome. What is the *Progressive Movement?. An attempt to deal with the problems brought on by industrialization and urbanization A search for order. Turn of the Century.

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The Progressive Movement 1890s-1920 Ms. Jerome

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  1. The Progressive Movement1890s-1920Ms. Jerome THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900-1920 Ms. Jerome

  2. What is the *Progressive Movement? • An attempt to deal with the problems brought on by industrialization and urbanization • A search for order

  3. Turn of the Century • Progressive movement sought change, equality and reform. • A new century…a new beginning • Communism or SAVE CAPITALISM? • HOW DO YOU SAVE CAPITALISM?

  4. Capitalism?

  5. Does Communism sound good? • ELIMINATE private ownership • Make companies government owned. • SO WHY DIDN’T AMERICA TURN TO SOCIALISM? • WAS PUTTING GOVERNMENT IN CONTROL OF BUSINESSES THE ANSWER? • PROGRESSIVES THOUGHT OTHERWISE

  6. PROGRESSIVISM CivilRights Suffragettes Muckrackers Temperance Labor Unions MidclassWomen Popul ists Goo Goos

  7. *PROGRESSIVES • Mission: to improve capitalism • Make government more responsie to social inequities • Reform government and business, • Ensure decent working conditions and wages • Fair governmental rule.

  8. Recap of Populists • Post Civil War return to the farm • Overproduction of farm goods (remember new machinery made farming faster, more efficient) • High cost of fertilizer, railroad transportation, seeds, machinery left farmers in debt to bankers. • Populist Party emerged

  9. http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/eamerica/media/ch22/resources/documents/populist.htmhttp://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/eamerica/media/ch22/resources/documents/populist.htm

  10. Progressive Ideas • *Social Gospel: • Protestant Christian Movement • The Kingdom of God on earth could be achieved not by striving for personal salvation but in the cause of social justice • *Walter Rauschenbusch: the leading early theologian of the Social Gospel in the United State

  11. Progressive Ideas Cont’d • Philosophy of *Pragmatism • Turn towards pragmatism and away from Social Darwinism • Turn away from “Absolute Truths”notion that society has unchanging laws (e.g. you are poor because…) • Pragmatism is a turn towards judging consequences • This happened because… • NOT Because you are poor…

  12. The of Progressive Movement; • Middle Class Women

  13. Industrial system was in profound disorder. The middle class had to fight the wrongs of society. It was a middle class task.* The rich wouldn’t * The poor couldn’t

  14. Women for change • Think about it: If history was told though the lens of women, it would be a history of peace and social justice • Historically, women are the “social housekeepers” • Shouldered the burden of humanitarianism • Foot soldiers for charity • Lobbying and running settlement houses

  15. Jane Addams andSettlement Houses • Jane Addams is a poster-child for a female progressive • “Hull House” was a hallmark of social progressivism. • Women began to have a voice and wanted more rights… • Suffrage

  16. *National Women’sTrade Union League • Formed in 1903 • Eliminate sweat shop conditions • Effort to organize women in labor union • Inspired by British women

  17. Muller vs. Oregon* • 1908 • Topic: Sex Discrimination • Restricted the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health. • "the difference between the sexes.“ • child-bearing physiology and social role of women provided a strong state interest in reducing their working hours.

  18. Repercussions: • Was this court decision a milestone or a setback for women’s rights? • Distinguished between two groups of women activists: • Feminists: sought equal-rights feminists • Anti the notion of the separation of the sexes into two stereotyped gender-roles

  19. *Triangle Shirtwaist Fire • March 25, 1911 • 10th Story NYC building (downtown) • 8th floor fire • Seamstresses • Mostly Immigrant women • 146 jumped or burned to their deaths • They had been locked in so they wouldn’t be caught slacking on the job.

  20. Results • Raised public awareness to realities of workplace conditions.

  21. *“Feminism” • A new term during the Progressive era. • Freedom for full personal development • Militantly pro-suffrage on the basis that they were just as good as men.

  22. Women’s Suffrage: *Alice Paul • Picket • Hunger Strikes in jail • Against state-by-state women suffrage • Forced Feeing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO70ZjZ0wrw • Parade in Washington: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUY-wVLdeY

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