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Four goals of progressivism

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  1. Protecting social welfare
  2. Promoting moral improvement
  3. Creating economic reform
  4. Fostering efficiency
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Soften the harsh conditions of industrialization

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Protecting social welfare

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Examples of the goal of protecting social welfare

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  • young men’s Christian association (YMCA)
  • Settlement houses
  • Salvation Army
  • Florence Kelly (advocate for improving lives of women and children)
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Who did the Salvation Army send?

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Slum brigades to instruct the poor immigrants in middle class values of hard work

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Examples of the goal of promoting moral improvement

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Temperance movement
Prohibition
WCTU
Anti - saloon league

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An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption

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Temperance movement

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A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

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Prohibtion

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3 groups that dominated the temperance movement

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  • prohibition party
  • women’s Christian temperance Union
  • anti saloon league
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Carry nation?

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Leader in temperance movement, entered saloons praying and urging owners to stop selling

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Blamed immigrants for countries alcohol problem

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Anti - saloon league

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Examples of the goal of creating economic reform

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  • journalists played key role in alerting public
    • jungle book = exposed meat packing industry
    • the shame of cities = political corruption
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Journalists who uncover wrongdoings

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Muckrakers

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Examples of the goal of fostering efficiency

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  • scientific management = breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler tasks
    • Fredrick Winslow - “taylorism”
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Vassar

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Accepted first women students

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Harvard, brown…

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Refused to admit women

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Targeted workplace reform, housing reform, educational improvement and food and drug laws

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Social housekeeping

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NACW (national association of colored women)

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Involved in campaigns in favor of women’s suffrage and against lynching and Jim Crow laws

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Founders of NACW

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Harriet Tubman, Ida B wells

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The right to vote

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Suffrage

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The most celebrated women of women’s suffrage

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Elizabeth candy Stanton and Susan b Anthony

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Skilled speaker and writer

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Stanton

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Strategist and organizer

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Anthony

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When did the women suffrage movement begin

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When women split over the 14th and 15th amendments which granted equal rights including the right to vote for African Americans but excluded women

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What did Anthony and Stanton form

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The national women suffrage association

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What did Anthony led a group to?

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Led a group of women to the polls in Rochester NY where she insisted on voting
-arrested for civil disobedience

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Nonviolent refusal to obey a law in a effort to change it

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Civil disobedience

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3 part strategy for suffrage

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  1. Target individual states
  2. Test the 14th amendment
  3. National constitutional amendment
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How did they target individual states

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Worked on the state level to win voting rights

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How did they test the 14th amendment

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14th amendment = citizens have equal rights

  • weren’t women citizens!!!??
  • Supreme Court ruled that women were citizens but that doesn’t mean you have the right to vote
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National constitutional amendment??

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Pushed for several years to get amendment pushed for women

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Who picked up movement when Stanton and Anthony died?

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Carrie chapman Catt and Alice Paul

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3 developments to win suffrage?

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  • increased activism of local groups
  • use of bold new strategies to build enthusiasm
  • rebirth of national movement under Carrie Catt
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Catt concentrated on 5 tactics for the national movement:

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  1. Organization
  2. Close ties between local, state, and national workers
  3. Establishing a wide base support
  4. Cautious lobbying
  5. Gracious, lady like behavior
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Alice Paul tried more….

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Radical strategies

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19th amendment ?

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Congress granted women the right to vote

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How long did it take for women to gain suffrage

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72 years

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Describe Woodrow Wilson

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-28th president
- campaigned for “new freedom”
-born in Virginia
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Two antitrust laws?

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  • Clayton antitrust act

- federal trade commission act

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Clayton antitrust act

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  • prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another company if doing so would create a monopoly
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Federal trade commission act

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  • watchdog agency
    • can investigate possible violations
    • helped end unfair business practices
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16th amendment

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Legalized a federal income tax, taxing individual earnings and corporate profits
Lowered tariffs of businesses

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U.S. Central banking system

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  • divided nation into 12 districts and established a regional central bank in each district
  • issues US currency
  • wil sons most lasting achievements
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Wilson disappoints

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He promised to treat blacks equally and speak out against lynching
Broke these promises
Appointed all white southerners
Opposed anti lynching legislation

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Aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social injustices in American Life

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Progressive movement

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