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The Progressive Movement is an attempt to purify society (business and politics)

The Progressive Movement is an attempt to purify society (business and politics). Need to be more socially minded in response to increasing complexities of American society So what leads to / allows this movement to happen? Return to prosperity caused a resurgence in reform efforts

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The Progressive Movement is an attempt to purify society (business and politics)

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  1. The Progressive Movement is an attempt to purify society (business and politics) • Need to be more socially minded in response to increasing complexities of American society • So what leads to / allows this movement to happen? • Return to prosperity caused a resurgence in reform efforts • General lack of morals and conduct • Desire to create a Welfare state • Muckrakers • Steffens / Tarbell • McClures

  2. Progressives believed society’s evils lay in its structures not with individuals • Weaker parts of society need to be protected • Social Darwinism – imperialism • How does the above idea relate to the increasing trend towards Radical Progressivism?

  3. Is the Progressive Movement only democratic in its rhetoric? Or did it really help the people? • What reforms were made in cities in an attempt to counteract the complexities and anonymity of society? • How did changes on the state level increase democracy?

  4. “A Woman’s Work” John Sloan, 1912 “Fire on 24th Street”Everett Shinn, 1907 ASHCAN SCHOOL OF ART

  5. Did the Supreme Court mis-rule on their interpretation of the 14th Amendment? • Does the government really have the power it was exerting? How involved in people’s lives should it become?

  6. YOUR HW TONIGHT: Read page 586-592 (do not need to read about Taft) – and read the Jungle (don’t need to get too in depth – you will get the picture quickly. POM 22.3

  7. Victorian Beliefs: Men are full of lust Women are pure Female purity leads them to reform “At a time when sex was an unmentionable topic in polite society, some of the most militant advocates of women’s rights probably did not understand their own feelings. Most feminists, for example, opposed contraception, insisting that birth control by any means … would encourage … masculine lust.” (Garraty) Women felt slighted with exclusion from 14th and 15th amendments Compared educated women with former slaves Social Status during the Victorian Age:

  8. Women’s Suffrage Part Deux • Turn of century dominated by: • ECS – a “stereotypically traditional woman” • SBA • The Doldrums… • AWSA + NWSA = NAWSA • Carrie Chapman Catt • State-by-state approach • National Campaign: • Alice Paul (“there is no Alice Paul… only suffrage”)

  9. Why were the Western States so much more liberal / progressive? • South Dakota: • Hot, cold, sparsely populated

  10. So why were women denied the right to vote? • Democrats feared they would vote Republican • Political machines feared they would reform them • Liquor industry didn’t want to be reformed • Southern politicians didn’t want black women voting

  11. So with such huge efforts against them, how do they gain the right to vote? • More radical approach (Paul) - 1913 • Catt got $ (Mrs. Frank Leslie) • 8,000 marchers at Wilson’s inauguration (1912) • 18 month long picketing!!! (1916) • Arrests, threats, fines, jail, hunger strikes, forced feedings, success!

  12. Protests Outside the White House • President’s Response • WWI • Harry Burn’s note

  13. HOWEVER • Ida B. Wells prevented from marching • African American hurdles: • Plessy v. Ferguson • Lynchings • Mary Turner • Tried to stop her husband’s lynching

  14. Related Reforms: Temperance • # who drank was small – amount they drank was great • Temperance reveals desire to keep men at home • Exert self control (Victorian ideal) • Immigrants drank – stop them from making pasta and being different • Because women lacked so many rights – could not do much if they married a drunkard • Great irony of Progressivism • increase liberty while limiting some freedoms

  15. Expansion to “Do Everything” CampaignWCTU – Frances Willard • Purity Campaign and Society for the Suppression of Vice • Raising age of “consent” • Prostitution - VD • Public indecencies

  16. Laws to limit indecency • Comstock Laws • Cannot send lewd material through the mail (sex ed) • No one believed women used “birth control” • Although what accounts for the halving of birth rate? • Margaret Sanger • Sadie Sachs – knew very much about the plight of Jewish immigrants • Violated Comstock Laws • Opens a clinic and is very successful until arrested

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