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Progressive Era

Progressive Era. Unit 5.5 – Notes & Vocab. Social Reform. Late 1800s and early 1900s few enjoyed the wealth & prosperity of Gilded Age Immigrants and poor laborers lived and worked under harsh conditions Gov. was full of corruption at all levels

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Progressive Era

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  1. Progressive Era Unit 5.5 – Notes & Vocab

  2. Social Reform • Late 1800s and early 1900s few enjoyed the wealth & prosperity of Gilded Age • Immigrants and poor laborers lived and worked under harsh conditions • Gov. was full of corruption at all levels • Many citizens and officials demanded reforms beginning the Progressive Movement

  3. Muckrakers & Reformers • Many reform leaders were journalists & writers • They told the stories of the poor & revealed the corruption of business & Gov. – raking up the “mud” in everyone’s faces • Lincoln Steffens – exposed political corruption • Ida Tarbell – exposed the abuses of Standard Oil • Upton Sinclair – wrote The Jungle revealing unsanitary meat production • Jane Addams – opened Hull Houses for the poor • Ida Wells-Barnett – wrote against lynching, the KKK, and helped found NAACP

  4. Temperance • Some saw alcohol as the source of poverty and suffering– this led to the rise of the Temperance Movement • They wanted to eliminate the production & sale of alcohol • They were successful in 1919 with the passage of the 18th amendment - this was Prohibition

  5. Women’s Suffrage • Women’s Suffrage (the right to vote) was on the rise ever since the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 • Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton were major leaders of the movement until 1900 creating the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) • Carrie Chapman Catt & Alice Paul led the movement during the early 1900s - the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 giving women the right to vote

  6. Presidential Reformers • Theodore Roosevelt – 1st progressive president, demanded negotiations between labor unions and big business, broke up monopolies & trusts, signed the Food & Drug Act, conservationists of America’s natural areas • Woodrow Wilson – passed the Federal Reserve Act establishing the Federal Reserve to oversee banking, signed the Clayton Antitrust act (pro labor unions), saw ratification of the 16th Amendment (income tax), & 17th Amendment (direct election of US senators)

  7. African American Reformers • Booker T. Washington – founded Tuskegee Institute, believed learning a trade and becoming economically independent would lead to equality, saw no problem with segregation • W.E.B. DuBois – offended by Washington, believed in persuing higher level education, demanded the end of segregation, founded NAACP

  8. Vocab • Progressive Movement • Muckrakers • Upton Sinclair • The Jungle • Clayton Anti-Trust Act • Jane Addams • Temperance Movement • 18th Amendment • Women’s Suffrage Movement • Carrie Catt • Alice Paul • 19th Amendment • Theodore Roosevelt • Woodrow Wilson • Federal Reserve Act • 16th Amendment • 17th Amendment • Booker T. Washington • W.E.B. DuBois • Ida Wells-Barnett

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