The Progressive Movement 1890s-1920 Ms. Jerome

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The Progressive Movement1890s-1920Ms. Jerome
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900-1920

• Ms. Jerome

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What is the Progressive Movement?

• An attempt to deal with the problems brought on
  by industrialization and urbanization
• A search for order

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Turn of the Century

• Progressive movement sought change, equality and
  reform.
• A new centurya new beginning
• Communism or SAVE CAPITALISM?
• HOW DO YOU SAVE CAPITALISM?

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Capitalism?
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Does Communism sound good?

• ELIMINATE private ownership
• Make companies government owned.
• SO WHY DIDNT AMERICA TURN TO SOCIALISM?
• WAS PUTTING GOVERNMENT IN CONTROL OF BUSINESSES
  THE ANSWER?
• PROGRESSIVES THOUGHT OTHERWISE

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PROGRESSIVISM
CivilRights
Suffragettes
Muckrackers
Temperance
Labor Unions
MidclassWomen
Goo Goos
Popul ists
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PROGRESSIVES

• Mission to improve capitalism
• Make government more responsie to social
  inequities
• Reform government and business,
• Ensure decent working conditions and wages
• Fair governmental rule.

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Recap of Populists

• Post Civil War return to the farm
• Overproduction of farm goods (remember new
  machinery made farming faster, more efficient)
• High cost of fertilizer, railroad transportation,
  seeds, machinery left farmers in debt to bankers.
  
• Populist Party emerged

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• http//www.wwnorton.com/college/history/eamerica/m
  edia/ch22/resources/documents/populist.htm

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Progressive Ideas

• Social Gospel
• Protestant Christian Movement
• The Kingdom of God on earth could be achieved not
  by striving for personal salvation but in the
  cause of social justice
• Walter Rauschenbusch the leading early
  theologian of the Social Gospel in the United
  State

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Progressive Ideas Contd

• Philosophy of Pragmatism
• Turn towards pragmatism and away from Social
  Darwinism
• Turn away from Absolute Truths ?notion that
  society has unchanging laws (e.g. you are poor
  because)
• Pragmatism is a turn towards judging consequences
  
• This happened because
• NOT Because you are poor

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The of Progressive Movement

• Middle Class Women

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Industrial system was in profound disorder. The
middle class had to fight the wrongs of society.
It was a middle class task. The rich wouldnt
The poor couldnt
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Women for change

• Think about it If history was told though the
  lens of women, it would be a history of peace and
  social justice
• Historically, women are the social housekeepers
• Shouldered the burden of humanitarianism
• Foot soldiers for charity
• Lobbying and running settlement houses

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Jane Addams andSettlement Houses

• Jane Addams is a poster-child for a female
  progressive
• Hull House was a hallmark of social
  progressivism.
• Women began to have a voice and wanted more
  rights
• Suffrage

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National WomensTrade Union League

• Formed in 1903
• Eliminate sweat shop conditions
• Effort to organize women in labor union
• Inspired by British women

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Muller vs. Oregon

• 1908
• Topic Sex Discrimination
• Restricted the working hours of women as
  justified by the special state interest in
  protecting women's health.
• "the difference between the sexes.
• child-bearing physiology and social role of women
  provided a strong state interest in reducing
  their working hours.

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Repercussions

• Was this court decision a milestone or a setback
  for womens rights?
• Distinguished between two groups of women
  activists
• Feminists sought equal-rights feminists
• Anti the notion of the separation of the sexes
  into two stereotyped gender-roles

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

• March 25, 1911
• 10th Story NYC building (downtown)
• 8th floor fire
• Seamstresses
• Mostly Immigrant women
• 146 jumped or burned to their deaths
• They had been locked in so they wouldnt be
  caught slacking on the job.

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Results

• Raised public awareness to realities of workplace
  conditions.

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Feminism

• A new term during the Progressive era.
• Freedom for full personal development
• Militantly pro-suffrage on the basis that they
  were just as good as men.

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Womens Suffrage Alice Paul

• Picket
• Hunger Strikes in jail
• Against state-by-state women suffrage
• Forced Feeing http//www.youtube.com/watch?vpO70
  ZjZ0wrw
• Parade in Washington http//www.youtube.com/watch
  ?vAtUY-wVLdeY