Progressive Reform

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Progressive Reform

• Politics
• Teddy Roosevelt and the rule of
  socially-conscious experts
• End of liberty of contract doctrine
• Art and Culture
• Realism in art (Ashcan School)
• Muckraking journalism
• Documentary photography
• Immigration and Labor
• Settlement House movement
• Idea of the melting pot
• Fordism and Taylorism
• Document Analysis Tutorial
• Requirements and grading
• Example

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Progressive Politics President Theodore
Roosevelt, 1901-1909
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Art and Culture John Sloan, Parade, Washington
Square, 1910
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Art and Culture George Bellows, Dempsey and
Firpo, 1924
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Art and Culture Cartoon about Muckraking
Journalism
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Art and Culture Jacob Riis, Bandits Roost, 59
1/2 Mulberry Street, c. 1888
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Art and Culture Child Labor Poser with Lewis
Hines Photographs
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Immigration and Labor Jane Addams, founder of
the Hull House
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Immigration and Labor Hull House Complex, 1902
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Immigration and Labor Hull House Kindergarten
Class, 1902
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Immigration and Labor Hull House Labor
Museum, 1902
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Immigration and Labor Cartoon about the Melting
Pot, 1889
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Immigration and Labor Henry Fords Model T, 1915
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Immigration and Labor Henry Fords automobile
assembly line
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Immigration and Labor Photographic Motion
Study, 1894
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Immigration and Labor Charlie Chaplin comments
on the assembly line in Modern Times, 1936
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Document Analysis Requirements and Grading

• Assignment
• 2-3 pages
• Any document assigned for week II-V (up to Feb.
  1)
• You may use secondary sources (lectures,
  textbook, Jstor) but your argument should be
  based primarily on the document
• Questions
• What does this documents tell me about American
  History?
• Who produced it?
• When?
• Why?
• What was the intended audience?
• What was the purpose?
• Proper form
• Introduction (with thesis statement - F or D if
  no thesis statement)
• Body (your supporting points for the thesis
  statement)
• Conclusion
• Quote or paraphrase the document to support your
  points

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Document Analysis Formatting

• Proper Formatting - 0.5 of your grade
• Double-spaced (no additional space between
  paragraphs)
• Cover page
• 1-inch margins
• Times or Times New Roman 12-point font
• Page numbers
• In your first footnote for each source, include
  full bibliographical information
• A. Mitchell Palmer, "The Case Against the
  'Reds'," Forum 63 (1920).
• Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty An American History,
  Volume 2, Seagull Edition (New York W.W. Norton,
  2005), 25.
• After the first footnote for each source, use the
  name of the author, short title (everything
  before the column), and page number, if
  available
• Palmer, "The Case Against the 'Reds.'"
• Foner, Give Me Liberty, 30.

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Document Analysis Example, Dennis Kearny
Thesis statement (in the introduction) Dennis
Kearnys speech shows that American labor leader
in the late nineteenth century supported Chinese
exclusion because they thought Chinese immigrants
took away jobs from white workers. Paragraph in
the body of your paper Kearny blames white
workers unemployment in part on the slave
mentality of Chinese workers. He argues that
corporations go as far as China to recruit
workers because it is easier to control them as
serfs.1 He claims that their character
predisposes them to obedience They are wipped
curs, abject in docility, mean, contemptible and
obedient in all things.2 As Eric Foner shows in
the texbook, this attitude was shared by the
majority of working class white men.3 This notion
of innate difference between the white and
Asian races justified Chinese exclusion. 1
Dennis Kearney, President, and H. L. Knight,
Secretary, Appeal from California. The Chinese
Invasion. Workingmens Address, Indianapolis
Times, 28 February 1878. 2 Ibid. 3 Eric Foner,
Give Me Liberty An American History, Volume 2,
Seagull Edition (New York W.W. Norton, 2005), 75.
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Document Analysis Example, Dennis Kearny
Thesis statement (in the introduction) Dennis
Kearnys speech shows that American labor leaders
in the late nineteenth century supported Chinese
exclusion because they thought Chinese immigrants
took away jobs from white workers. Paragraph in
the body of your paper Kearny blames white
workers unemployment in part on the slave
mentality of Chinese workers. He argues that
corporations go as far as China to recruit
workers because it is easier to control them as
serfs.1 As Eric Foner shows in the texbook, this
attitude was shared by the majority of working
class white men.2 He claims that their character
predisposes them to obedience They are wipped
curs, abject in docility, mean, contemptible and
obedient in all things.3 This notion of innate
difference between the white and Asian races
justified Chinese exclusion. 1 Dennis Kearney,
President, and H. L. Knight, Secretary, Appeal
from California. The Chinese Invasion.
Workingmens Address, Indianapolis Times, 28
February 1878. 2 Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty An
American History, Volume 2, Seagull Edition (New
York W.W. Norton, 2005), 75. 3 Kearny and
Knight, Appeal from California.
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Document Analysis Checklist

• Introduction
• Thesis statement - This document tells us X
  about American history in Y period.
• Body paragraphs each have a point
• Body paragraphs contain examples (quotes
  paraphrases) to support your points
• Footnotes every time you quote or paraphrase
• Proper formatting
• Conclusion summarizes your main points
• Did you explain
• Who?
• When?
• Why?
• Audience?