chapter 18. progressive movement 1900-1917 challenge
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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