The Progressive Era Social Reform

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The Progressive EraSocial Reform

• What kinds of action can bring about social
  change?

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Lightening Review

• Progressives making efforts for social,
  economic, and political change.
• What problems? poor working conditions, poor
  living conditions, corruption, etc.
• Muckrakers Uncovering the Brussel sprouts of
  society. ?
• Jacob Riis
• Thomas Nast
• Upton Sinclair

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Muckraker
Jacob Riis

• How the Other Half Lives
• Published photographs and descriptions of the
  poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted many
  immigrant neighborhoods in NYC

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A Growler Gang in Session (Robbing a Lush), 1887
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Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters, c.1880s
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Family Living in a one-room tenement
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Jane Addams

• Founded Chicagos Hull House
• One of the most influential
• members of the movement
• Won the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy of
  racial justice, quality of life issues, infant
  mortality, and better care for the aged

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Settlement Houses

• Community centers in slum neighborhoods that
  provided assistance to people in the area
• Over 400 settlement houses
• Provided educational, cultural, and social
  services
• Visiting nurses
• YMCA

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Hull House

• Community center where neighborhood societies
  learn English, talk politics, medical services,
  nursery for children with working parents, etc.

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Public Education

• 1870? only 2 of all 17 yr olds graduation HS
• School yr was just a few months
• Reformers wanted more education to promote
  cleanliness, thrift, patriotism, hard work, etc.
• There is an increase in public education
  opportunities
• 1880-1900 ? 250 new colleges
• More opportunities for women too
• unequally distributed between whites and
  minorities.

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Social Movements

• Social Darwinism Survival of the fittest
• Social Gospel Christian movement based on the
  beliefs that society must help one another
• Gospel of Wealth Stated by Andrew Carnegie that
  there is a responsibility for the rich to give
  back to society.

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Lets Compare.

• Read the Venn Diagram
• Complete the Multiple Choice questions