CHAPTER 18

PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT

•1900-1917•Challenge

ORIGINS

•Urban-industrial crisis•Economic depression

INDUSTRIAL PITFALLS

•Child labor•Wages •Rights

MUCKRAKERS

•Investigative journalism•Expose social evils•Upton Sinclair - The Jungle

Florence Kelley

•Factory conditions•8-hour work day•child labor

SETTLEMENT HOMES

•Jane Addams•Community centers•Skills

•Problem? ▫Poverty

PROHIBITION?

•Alcohol?

•Control

•1920: 18th amendment

•Narcotics, smoking

“”THE” SOCIAL EVIL

•Prostitution

•Week’s pay = Day’s work

•Before 1900: legal, rarely enforced laws

•BASEBALL

•Amusement parks

•Movies▫Popular ▫Immigrants, children▫Evil

MAP 21.1 Immigration to the United States, 1901–20

Newly landed European immigrant families on the dock at Ellis Island in New York harbor, 1900. Originally a black and white photograph, this image was later color tinted for reproduction as a postcard or book illustration. SOURCE:The Granger Collection,New York.

• Japanese▫ L.A.

• Mexicans▫ S.W.

• Jews▫ NYC

“BIRTH CONTROL”•Margaret Sanger, 1913•Women: Control own bodies

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

•1920, 19th amendment

RACISM

•Blacks, racism, and stereotypes•“Coon Songs”•Institutionalized

•Jim Crow

•Schools separate but “unequal”▫$11 per White student, $3 per Black

student

TEDDY ROOSEVELT

•“Progressive” president•Environment