What is Progressivism

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What is Progressivism?

• Was progressivism a movement, or just a
  collection of scattered reforms?
• What made a reform or movement Progressive?
• Did progressive change come from the top the
  middle or the bottom of society?
• Did progressivism come from liberalism or from
  radicalism, or from both?

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• Alice Paul toasting passage of 19th Amendment in
  1920. She worked closely with militant British
  suffragettes and helped lead the fight for
  suffrage.

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Progressive Internationalism

• Defining Progressivism
• Progressives and American Intlism
• Progressives and expansionism
• Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Internationalism

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3 Features of Progressivism

• Faith in scientific expertise
• commitment to civic engagement
• Internationalism saw world as connected,
  participating in international dialogue about
  reform
• TRs Speech The Liberty of the People

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Where did reform come from?

• Role of class
• Middle class reformers
• Womens rights
• Progressivisms blind spot race

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Triangle Fire March 1911
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Regional Progressivism South

• More Southern than Progressive class and racial
  inequality shapes views on reform
• Progress industrialization, not social reform
• Conservative views on black, womens suffrage
• Focus on prohibition, gambling, prostitution

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Examples of Progressive Reform

• Good Governance direct primary and election of
  Senators, referendum, initiative and recall,
  suffrage, civil service exams inheritance tax,
  progressive income tax
• Intervention in economy regulatory commissions
  for banking, insurance, railroads, Pure Food Act,
  minimum wage and regulation of working conditions
• Public Services public health campaigns, public
  parks, pools, sewers, libraries

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Progressive Internationalism

• Signs of growing globalization
• Internationalization of reform ideas
• How ideas were exchanged
• American borrowings from Europe

Hull House Founder Jane Addams protesting WWI in
1915
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Progressives and Expansionism

• Shared core beliefs with pro-imperialists
• Views on expansion
• Contradictions

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Wilson and Progressive Intlism

• Former Progressive Governor New Jersey
• Promoted banking, trade, antitrust reform
• Belief in liberal internationalism, American
  expansion
• Intervened in Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic

Woodrow Wilson, 1912
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Progressives and Ludlow, Colorado

• Ludlow site of intense labor conflict in coal
  mines
• Rockefeller and others fight unionization
• Striking miners attacked April 14, 1914, more
  than 20 killed
• Progressives see as proof of need for reform of
  big business

Miners Camp in Ludlow, CO after massacre and
fire on April 20, 1914
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Progressives and Veracruz, Mexico

• Mexican Revolution 1910-1914 ousts U.S. backed
  dictator Portfirio Diaz
• U.S. business interests and officials call for
  U.S. intervention April 1914 U.S. Navy sends
  troops ashore at Veracruz