Title: What is Progressivism
1What 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?
2- Alice Paul toasting passage of 19th Amendment in
1920. She worked closely with militant British
suffragettes and helped lead the fight for
suffrage.
3Progressive Internationalism
- Defining Progressivism
- Progressives and American Intlism
- Progressives and expansionism
- Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Internationalism
43 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
5Where did reform come from?
- Role of class
- Middle class reformers
- Womens rights
- Progressivisms blind spot race
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9Triangle Fire March 1911
10Regional 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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12Examples 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
13Progressive 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
14Progressives and Expansionism
- Shared core beliefs with pro-imperialists
- Views on expansion
- Contradictions
15Wilson 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
16Progressives 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
17Progressives 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