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Objective:
The student will:
Identify the techniques progressives hoped to use to make government more efficient, responsive, and able to solve problems through political reform.
Explain why progressives reformers supported the woman suffrage movement.
Describe the social-­welfare programs progressives attempted to reform.
1890
Progressive Era
1920
Federal Laws and Actions that resulted from Progressives such as Upton Sinclair
Pure Food and Drug Act:
Food and Drug Administration:
Meat Inspection Act:
Department of Agriculture:
Department of Labor:
Vocabulary
Keating-­Owen Child Labor Act: Hull House
Social Gospel
National Child Labor Committee
NAWSA
Tuskegee Institute
NAACP
Below are lyrics to four songs that describe problems many Americans faced in the late 1800s. Read the lyrics. Then answer these questions questions in your notebook.
1. What moods do melodies and lyrics seem to evoke?
2. What problems do these songs address?
3. When these songs were written, many people were working to find solutions to the problems of society. What types of solutions might they have proposed to address the problems you listed?
Objective: 1) Describe each of the 3 Progressive Presidents personality and the reforms they initiated while in office. 2) Compare and contrast the views of W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington.
3) Describe the different problems faced by progressive reformers and their attempts at reform.
Poor Living Conditions
Children not at School
Treatment in Justice System
Working Conditions
Tenement Housing Act: banned the construction of dark, poorly ventilated tenement buildings in the state of New York.
Safer Housing and Working Conditions
Children Attending Schools
White Wings: City Trash Collectors
Building Public High Schools
Muller v. Oregon: upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health.
Corrupt local and state governments
Political Machines
Electorate lacks power
Restructure City Government
Election Processes
Elect Reform Minded Mayors and Governors
Woman’s Suffrage
Racism
Disenfranchisement
Lynching
Protest and fight for suffrage state by state.
Use courts to fight racism and lynching
W.E.B. Dubois: The Crisis
The premier journal in the crusade for civil rights
Anti-­Lynching Bill
Minimum Wage for City Workers
Secret Ballot
City Commission
Direct Primary
Recall Initiative
Referendum
8-­Hour Workday
NAACP: ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice.
Suffrage in 16 states by 1918
Washington proposed that African Americans should accept disenfranchisement and social segregation as long as whites allow them economic progress, educational opportunity and justice in the courts.
Founded The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Du Bois criticized Washington for not demanding equality Booker T. Washington
for African Americans, as granted by the 14th Trained high school graduates to be teachers Amendment. or vocational skills. Dubois co-­founded the NAACP and supported Pan-­Africanism.
Washington argued that vocational education for blacks was more valuable to them than social advantages like higher education or political office. W.E.B. Du Bois became the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard
Du Bois fought what he believed was an inferior strategy, subsequently becoming a spokesperson for full and equal rights in every realm of a person's life.
W.E.B. Dubois
He coined the phrase "the talented tenth," a term that described the likelihood of one in 10 black men becoming leaders of their race.