Progressive Progressive MovementMovement

Social ProblemsSocial Problems

Goals of the Goals of the Progressive MovementProgressive Movement

• A government controlled by the people

• Guaranteed economic opportunities through government regulation

• Elimination of Social Injustices

Women’s MovementWomen’s Movement

Women were the leaders of the Progressive Movement

Social Injustices for Social Injustices for Women Women

• No right to Vote

• Destruction of family by alcohol, drugs, and violence

• Children worked all day and had no education

• Earned less money than men

Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony

• Leader of the Women’s Movement

• Encouraged women to enter work force during World War I

Accomplishments of Accomplishments of Women’s MovementWomen’s Movement

• 18th Amendment –prohibition; eliminated sale of

alcohol in the United States

• 19th Amendment –women got the right to vote

Accomplishments of Accomplishments of Women’s MovementWomen’s Movement

• Women gained equal rights as men legally but were still kept out of power by men

African American African American ProblemsProblems

The Era of Jim Crow

What is Jim Crow?What is Jim Crow?• Laws that legally separated

whites and blacks in public places

• Designed to keep blacks as second class citizens

What is Jim Crow?What is Jim Crow?• Enforced through lynchings

–Attacks on blacks who tried to violate Jim Crow

Plessy VS Ferguson (1896)Plessy VS Ferguson (1896)• Free black

sued to challenge the legality of Jim Crow Laws

Plessy VS Ferguson (1896)Plessy VS Ferguson (1896)• Supreme

Court ruled the “separate but equal” laws did not violate 14th amendment

African American Leaders

Ida B WellsIda B Wells• Led an anti-

lynching campaign

• Investigated and reported lynchings for various newspapers

Ida B WellsIda B Wells• Forced federal

gov’t to take action

Booker T WashingtonBooker T Washington

• Accepted segregation

Booker T WashingtonBooker T Washington

• Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education and economic success

W.E.B. DuboisW.E.B. Dubois

• First black to receive PHD from Harvard

• Vocational education was meaningless without equality

W.E.B. DuboisW.E.B. Dubois

• Helped found National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Accomplishments of Progressive Movement

• People gained more power in local and state governments

• Government abandoned policy of laissez-faire capitalism

• Government was forced to serve people’s needs in order to avoid another American Revolution