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Origins and Goals of the Progressive Movement

Origins and Goals of the Progressive Movement. What does the word mean to you? What do you think the goals were for these people? What would it take to force change at the turn of the century?. Progressive. What issues needed to be changed at the turn of the century?. Industrialization.

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Origins and Goals of the Progressive Movement

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  1. Origins and Goals of the Progressive Movement

  2. What does the word mean to you? What do you think the goals were for these people? What would it take to force change at the turn of the century? Progressive

  3. What issues needed to be changed at the turn of the century?

  4. Industrialization

  5. City Problems

  6. More Government Efficiency

  7. Who Were They? • Educational Reformers • Wanted reform of the environment • The Muckrakers • City and State Reformers • Political Reformers • Middle Class and College Educated The Progressive Reformers

  8. PROGRESSIVISM CivilRights Suffragettes Muckrackers Temperance Labor Unions MidclassWomen Popul ists S o c i a l i s t s ??

  9. End Abuse of Power by the Industrialists Replace Corrupt Power with Reformed Ideas Make the solution to problems more about the good of the people and not for the rich Change the conditions that existed in the cities and bring child labor under control Four Progressive Goals

  10. Muckrackers

  11. Types of Reformers Muckrakers S. S. McClure Ida Tarbell Jacob Riis Upton Sinclair Lincoln Steffens Edward Bellamy

  12. Riis’ Photos

  13. Progressive Political Reform

  14. Robert M. LaFollette Socialist Party /Eugene V. Debs NAACP /William E. B. DuBois Booker T. Washington Political Reformers

  15. Secret Ballot-introduced a secret system of voting Initiative-allowed 5% of voters to "initiate" laws in state legislatures Referendum---in some states voters could then pass initiatives into laws Recall-by petition voters could force an official to stand for re-election at any time Direct primary- to give voters control over candidates Reforming Elections

  16. Social and Moral Reform

  17. Jane Addams- Hull House • John Dewey- Education Reform • The Law: Muller vs. Oregon and Keating-Owens Act • Mary Harris "Mother" Jones • Florence Kelly Social Welfare

  18. Temperance Movement Prohibition Carrie Nation/Frances Willard Moral Reform

  19. Saloons

  20. Immigrants at Ellis Island

  21. Was it really that bad? Women’s Suffrage

  22. Women’s Suffrage

  23. In 1851, Elizabeth Cady Stanton started working with Susan B. Anthony, a well-known abolitionist. The two women made a great team. Anthony managed the business affairs of the women's rights movement while Stanton did most of the writing. Together they edited and published a woman's newspaper, the Revolution, from 1868 to 1870. In 1869, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. They traveled all over the country and abroad, promoting woman's rights. This is not a New Idea

  24. College Educated Women see suffrage as a civil right Door to Door Campaigns New Tactics from Europe Movement Gets New Life

  25. NAWSA: Carrie Chapman Catt • Organization • Close tie to local, state and national workers • Wide base of support • Lobbying • Ladylike behavior • Alice Paul/National Woman’s Party • Bold tactics used in Europe • National pressure only • Blamed the Democrats • Picketing of White House • Hunger strikes Women’s Suffrage

  26. Anti-Suffragist Cartoons

  27. Early Success

  28. Images of the Movement

  29. Wilson not overly supportive of suffrage WWI Passed 1919 and Ratification August 1920 The 19th Amendment

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