THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT UNIT 3 PROGRESSIVISM UNIT 3.1 Progressivism Muckrakers Reforming Cities Reforming Society - NAACP Reforming the Workplace Reforming Government Reforming Voting Essential Question: Explain how reforms set forth in the Progressive Movement reflect the definition of Progressivism. PROGRESSIVISM A broad philosophy based on the idea of progress, which says: advancement in economic development and social organization are vital to improving life in America. MUCKRAKERS Journalists who exposed areas in need of reform Slums How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis Standard Oil Company Ida Tarbell City Governments Shame of the Cities Lincoln Steffens Railroad Monopolies Frank Norris REFORMING CITIES Necessary services not being provided Cities began passing ordinances to help govern and clean up REFORMING SOCIETY NAACP Protested segregation in federal government Protested the film Birth of a Nation REFORMING THE WORKPLACE Children were limited in the workplace Supreme Court decisions on hour limits Lochner V NY = no hour restrictions Muller V Oregon = 10 hour limit for women Bunting V Oregon = 10 hour limit for all TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST COMPANY FIRE 140 men and women die in high-rise sweatshop fire Turning point for labor and reform movements REFORMING GOVERNMENT City Government Reforms City Council appoints professional politician to run the city ; five member city commissions serving as governance State Government Reforms States pushed to regulate railroads, utilities, and work places REFORMING VOTING Direct primary voters select a partys candidates for public office 17 th amendment voters elect their senators directly Secret ballot people vote privately without fear of coercion Initiative allows citizens to propose new laws Referendum allows citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law Recall allows voters to remove an elected official from office ESSENTIAL QUESTION Explain how reforms set forth in the Progressive Movement reflect the definition of Progressivism. WOMEN IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA UNIT 3.2 Higher Education for Women Women in the Workplace National Association of Colored Women (NACW) The Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Prohibition Amendments National Woman Suffrage Association Suffrage Amendment Essential Question: Evaluate the success of the Womens organizations during the Progressive Era. HIGHER EDUCATION FOR WOMEN Available to middle and upper classes some jobs still excluded women WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE Traditional Teachers and nurses New Middle Class Jobs Bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks, artists and journalists Industrial Paid Less Factories, particularly garment industry NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN (NACW) Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray Washington, and Harriet Tubman Against: lynching, segregation, poverty, and Jim Crow laws THE WOMENS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION (WCTU) Called for Prohibition: ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages Evangelists: Billy Sunday and Carry Nation PROHIBITION AMENDMENTS 18 th Amendment (1917) = Prohibition 21 st Amendment (1933) = repealed Prohibition NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Called for Womens Suffrage: to give women the right to vote Formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Anthony challenged law and voted, Supreme Court said states decision who gets to vote American Woman Suffrage Association merger - became National American Woman Suffrage Association SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT 19 th Amendment (1920) granted Womens Suffrage the right to vote ESSENTIAL QUESTION Evaluate the success of the Womens organizations during the Progressive Era.