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Title: 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
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