The Progressive Era

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The Progressive Era

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The Progressive Movement

• Developed in response to problems growing in
  cities the changing workplace in the late 19th
  century
• Mainly led by middle class, wanted
• -to reform corrupt govt
• -end monopolies in Big Business
• -improve conditions for industrial workers
• -address problems of immigrants migrants

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The Progressive Movement

• Progressives reached large audiences with the
  help of muckraking journalists
• The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, was a book that
  exposed the horrors of the meatpacking industry

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Child Labor Reform

• Supported by Northern progressives, SC newspaper
  editors, womens groups of both races
• Opposed by mill owners some workerswhy do you
  think?

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Child Labor Reform

• Minimum working age set to 12, then raised to 14
• Compulsory education laws were passed funding
  increased for schools

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Temperance Movement Prohibition

• Gov. Tillman did not want prohibition, but
  progressives did
• By early 20th century, 20/43 counties were dry
• 1915 statewide prohibition
• 1918 U.S. prohibition (18th Amendment)
• Could not make, sell, or transport alcohol
• Many did not follow the law crime rate increased
  because of bootleggers and moonshiners

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Womens Groups

• Many young, educated women promoted reform
• In SC, womens clubs supported
• Prohibition
• Fostering civil responsibility
• Education reform
• Successes Improving health education
• Failures did not help much with womens suffrage
  movement
• 19th Amendment (1920) gave women the right to
  votenot ratified in SC until 1969

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African Americans during the Progressive Era

• Many African Americans migrated from the South to
  the North
• Organizations like the Urban League and the NAACP
  as well as Progressive leaders like W.E.B. DuBois
  and Ida B. Wells Barnett wanted to improve
  conditions for African Americans
• Progressive movement for African Americans not
  successful in SC politicians still wanted
  segregation

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Progressive Era Governors

• Robert Cooper
• Increased taxes spent more on education
• Supported law to increase school year to 7 months
• Graduation rate still low (esp in African
  American schools) because of lack of high schools
• Coleman Blease
• NOT PROGRESSIVE
• Didnt support anti-lynching laws
• Opposed child labor reform in mills

• Richard Manning
• Progressive governor
• Establish fair tax system
• Established schools
• Improved administration of hospitals paved roads

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Reforms in the State

• State hospitals established for TB patients
  womens leagues raised money to build libraries
• Separate facilities for races existed in the
  state
• SC Highway Department created
• Govt supported construction of roads b/c of cars
• WWI brought an end to the movement, but not the
  problems addressed in the movement