Progressive Era

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Progressive Era

• The Life of minorities during the Gilded age and
  Progressive Era

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Standards

• SSUSH13 The student will identify major efforts
  to reform American society and politics in the
  Progressive Era.
• Objectives Students should be able to how
  muckrakers helped to bring about the progressive
  movement.
• Students should be able to explain what steps
  America took during the progressive movement to
  better the lives of the lower middle class.

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Issues facing African Americans

• Please read the supplied passage and answer the
  questions.
• We will collect this for a grade.

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Plessy V. Fergueson

• Main Menu, Plessy v. Ferguson, Landmark Supreme
  Court Cases
• Plessy v. Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free
  encyclopedia
• Establishes the doctrine of Separate but Equal
  which basically make Jim Crow laws legal.

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Early civil rights leaders and tactical
differences

• Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois both rose
  to prominence in African American communities
• pursued identical goals
• repealing Jim Crow laws
• SEVERELY DISAGREED ON TACTICS TO REACH THIS GOAL

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Booker T. and the Atlanta Compromise

• http//www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_boo
  ker.html
• "The wisest of my race understand that the
  agitation of questions of social equality is the
  extremist folly and that progress in the
  enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to
  us must be the result of severe and constant
  struggle rather than artificial forcing. The
  opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just
  now is worth infinitely more than to spend a
  dollar in an opera house."
• Text of Washington's Atlanta Compromise speech

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Booker T. and the President

• http//video.pbs.org/video/2178670636/
• Many middle class African Americans accepted
  Booker T. Washington as the leader of Black Civil
  Rights.
• Booker T.s audience and influence with the
  President gained him much fanfare.

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W.E.B. Dubois

• Dobois did not agree with Booker Ts views
• Dubois formed the Niagra movment
• Sought immediate reconcilliation of civil and
  political equality
• Argued that the Constitution already provided
  this equality and it was the duty of the federal
  gov. to enforce it.

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NAACP

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP
• Started in 1909
• Influenced by the views of W.E.B. Dubois
• The NAACP becomes the leading voice for African
  Americans through the publication of The
  Crisis, the NAACPs official newsletter.

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Women and the progressive movement

• Identify
• Margaret Sanger
• Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Hull House- http//www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/p
  rogressiveera/hullhouse.html

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Progressive Legislation
PROGRESSIVE ERA AND MINORITIES PROGRESSIVE ERA AND MINORITIES
Name 3 ways that women were helped during the progressive era. Name 3 things that occurred to assist African Americans during the progressive Era