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Social Reforms

Reforms/Reformers

Social Problems

WCTU - Women’s Christian Temperance Union

3. Drinking

Reforms/Reformers

Social Reforms

18th Amendment - Prohibited making/selling alcohol (Prohibition)

Jacob Riis -

Social Problems

Carry Nation

Temperance supporter Carry Nation speaks out against alcohol holding a Bible and a hatchet. Nation was famous for taking a hatchet to bar fixtures and stock

2. Unsafe housing

Photographer of the lives of poor city dwellers

Spurred reforms of crime, disease, building codes

Social Reforms

Social Problems

Reforms/Reformers

4. Crime/Fires

Jane Addams & Hull House (in Chicago!)

Social Reforms

Beginnings of social work

Provided education, job training, day care, medical care to poor immigrants

Social Problems

Reforms/Reformers

1. Urban Poverty

Professional fire and police departments form

1911-New York, NY: Triangle Shirt Waist fire disaster view of some of the ruins after the blaze swept the factory

Social Problems

Social Reforms

5. Child labor

AND IT BECAME A REFORM MOVEMENT:

Progressives Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:

Child Labor Laws!

Reforms/Reformers

Social Reforms (1-5)

1938 - Federal regulation of child labor achieved in Fair Labor Standards Act - For the first time, minimum ages of employment and hours of work for children are regulated by federal law

Economic Reforms (6 & 7)

Political Reforms (8)

(Think – do not write anything)

Why didn’t people start reforming these problems earlier?

THINKING QUESTION:

(Think – do not write anything)

Which of these social reforms was the most important? Why?

Economic Reforms

Muckrakers

Economic Problems

Reforms/Reformers

Journalists that investigated and exposed problems

6. Large corporate monopolies

INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

Ida Tarbell - Took on the corruption of Standard Oil through a series of magazine articles

Government began “busting” monopolies

Economic Reforms

Who?

Economic Problems

Reforms/Reformers

Middle to upper-middle class

Urban/city residents

Highly educated

Many were women

7. Abuses by companies

Upton Sinclair - Wrote “The Jungle” to point out food & health issues

Senator Robert La Follette Sr. speaks to a group of women during his unsuccessful run for President as a Progressive in 1924.

Passage of Pure Food and Drug act & government inspections of meat

Political Reforms

PROGRESSIVE ERA

Political Problems

Reforms/Reformers

8. Corrupt Government

17th Amendment-Direct election of Senators

• When? 1890s – 1920s

• Why? Reaction to problems of the “gilded age”

• How? Use the gov’t to fix the problems!!

Initiatives – bypass corrupt politicians, people propose legislation directly

Referendum – people approve legislation

Recall – remove corrupt politicians

Secret ballot

Women’s suffrage

THINKING QUESTION:

Progressivism - Favoring progress toward better conditions in gov’t & society.

(Think – do not write anything)

Which of these reforms would be the hardest to get done? Why?

Manhattan's "Bandit's Roost" Alley, 1888

Men loiter in the alley known as "Bandit's Roost" off Mulberry Street in lower Manhattan.

THINKING QUESTION:

(Think – do not write anything)

Have any of these problems been “fixed” today? Explain.