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CHAPTER 21. PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT. 1900-1917 Challenge. ORIGINS. Urban-industrial crisis Economic depression. INDUSTRIAL PITFALLS. Child labor Wages Rights . MUCKRAKERS. Investigative journalism Expose social evils Upton S inclair - The Jungle. Florence Kelley.
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PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT • 1900-1917 • Challenge
ORIGINS • Urban-industrial crisis • Economic depression
INDUSTRIAL PITFALLS • Child labor • Wages • Rights
MUCKRAKERS • Investigative journalism • Expose social evils • Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Florence Kelley • Factory conditions • 8-hour work day • child labor
SETTLEMENT HOMES • Jane Addams • Community centers • Skills • Problem? • Poverty
PROHIBITION? • Alcohol? • Control • 1920: 18th amendment • Narcotics, smoking
“”THE” SOCIAL EVIL • Prostitution • Week’s pay = Day’s work • Before 1900: legal, rarely enforced laws
BASEBALL • Amusement parks • Movies • Popular • Immigrants, children • Evil
Newly landed European immigrant families on the dock at Ellis Island in New York harbor, 1900. Originally a black and white photograph, this image was later color tinted for reproduction as a postcard or book illustration. SOURCE:The Granger Collection,New York.
Japanese • L.A. • Mexicans • S.W. • Jews • NYC
“BIRTH CONTROL” • Margaret Sanger, 1913 • Women: Control own bodies
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE • 1920, 19th amendment
RACISM • Blacks, racism, and stereotypes • “Coon Songs” • Institutionalized
Jim Crow • Schools separate but “unequal” • $11 per White student, $3 per Black student
TEDDY ROOSEVELT • “Progressive” president • Environment