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Progressive and the Gilded Age

• Chapter 20-21

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I. Progressives

1. Societys ills needed to be cured
2. Progressives
3. Rational planning social engineering
4. Middle Class

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Progressives (contd)

• Beliefs
• Anger over Industrialization
• Reject Social Darwinism
• Citizens get involved in reform
• Persuasionforce

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II. Reasons for Change

1. Science
2. Evangelical Protestantism
3. Both sought behavior control
4. Journalism
5. Muckraking
6. Ida Tarbell

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• Joseph Pulitzer
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair ?
• William
• Randolph Hearst
• Creates sections
• War with Pulitzer
• Exposed bad side of American life
• helped Progressive Movement

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III. Social Gospel

• Kingdom of God?social justice
• Jane Addams
• Settle House Movement
• Hull House
• Culture/refinement to the poor

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Social Gospel (contd)

• Social Uplift?Social Reform
• Focus on
• Education
• Health
• Work
• Other middle-class--educatedbored
  women?Settlement Houses
• Women become the influence of the Progressive
  Movement

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Social Gospel (contd)

• 9. Public Education
• Poor kids/immigrants
• Assimilate?middle-class
• values

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IV. Other Reforms

• City Beautification
• Parks
• Playgrounds
• Nature, etc
• Garbage collection/street lights
• Prostitution

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Other Reforms (contd)

• 4. Mann Act, 1910

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V. Temperance

• Public temperance?prohibition
• Stop consumption,
• Production, sale of alcohol
• 3. Improving society?Progress

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• 18th Amendment
• Production/Sale/
• transportation of alcohol

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VI. Womens Suffrage

1. 15th Amendment omits women
2. 1869-WY 1st to enfranchise women
3. 1890-WY becomes state during Pr.M.
4. 1869-AWSA American Womens Suffrage Association
5. NWSA National Womens Suffrage Association

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VII. Segregation

• Lynching
• Kept blacks socially/politically inferior
• Poll taxes
• Intimidation
• Literacy tests
• Jim Crow lawssegregation laws

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Segregation (contd)

• Plessy v. Ferguson-1896
• Separate but Equal

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VIII. Booker T. Washington

1. Accept segregation, if EQUAL
2. Thrift, hardwork, economic progress, need skills
   and education
3. Tuskegee Institute, 1881

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IX. WEB DuBois

1. 1st black to graduate from Harvard
2. 1909-helps establish bi-racial NAACP
3. Remove legal, racial, economic barriers to
   equality.

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