Progressivism Flashcards
Muckraker
Journalist who exposed corruption
Direct Primary
Election in which voters select nominees
Initiative
Bill proposed by people, not lawmakers, put onto ballots
Referendum
Voters, not legislature, decide if initiative becomes law
Recall
Voters remove elected official through early election
Henry Ford
Ford company
Champion of efficient manufacturing
Perfected the assembly line
Scientific Management
Time and motion studies done to make workplace more efficient
17th Amendment
Allowed for the direct election of senators by that states’ voters
Goals of progressives
- Social Welfare
- Moral Improvement
- Economic Reform
- Efficiency
Impact of progressive reform on the government
- 17th amendment
- Abolition of child labor
- Initiative, referendum, recall
- Direct elections through primaries oust political machines
How did progressives tackle social problems?
- Settlement houses
- Prohibition
- Muckraking
- Providing public welfare service
WEB Du Bois
- First African-American to get Harvard doctorate
- Encouraged liberal arts schools
- To put Blacks into leadership positions
Niagara Movement
Encouraged by Dubois to promote liberal arts study
Booker T Washington
Believed that racism would end if Blacks get labor skills
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Founded by Booker T Washington to teach Blacks labor skills to make themselves “useful” to white people
Changes in higher education:
- College enrollment increases
- Research universities emerge
- Professional law + med schools established
- Some colleges require entrance exams
Changes in public education:
- State laws require children to attend school
- Industrial economy requires certain skills
NAWSA
National American Women’s Suffrage Association
NACW
National Association of Colored Women
Suffrage
women’s right to vote
Changes in workforce that impacted women:
- Higher paying jobs required higher levels of education
- Poor women were forced to work, Mid-Upper class able to devote themselves to home
- Earned half men’s wages
- Most women forced into domestic labor jobs
Impact of access to high education on women:
- Access to more skilled + higher paying jobs
- Ability to focus more on social reform
Women’s tactics to gain suffrage:
- Convince state legislatures to give women right to vote
- Test 14th Amendment [states will lose representation if they deny men to vote]
- Push for constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote
Parochial Schools
Schools started by Catholics to give children Catholic educations and seperate them from the Protestant teachings in Public schools
