Monday:
Four goals of progressives
Protecting social welfare
promoting moral improvement
creating economic reformation
fostering efficiency
Worked to lessen the harsh conditions of industrialization
The Social Gospel and settlement house movements Aimed to help the poor, community centers, churches, and social services
YMCA- Opened libraries, sponsored classes, swimming pools, etc
Illinois Factory Act- 1893 Prohibited child labor and limited women working hours
Promoting Moral Improvement
Improving Lives of poor people
Morality not Work space
Personal Behavior
Prohibition- banning of alcohol
Manufacture, sale, or transportation
Not consumption, private possession, production for own possession
Economic Reformation
Embraced socialism 1893- workers
American Socialist Party 1901- Eugene V. Debs
Uneven balance- big business, government, ordinary people
Muckrakers: journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation
Antitrust laws- unlawful mergers, monopolies, business practices
Hepburn Act 1906
Fostering Efficiency
Main Goal- Make society and the workplace more efficient
"Taylorism"- scientific management where efficiency is improved by breaking down tasks into simpler parts
production sped up, the work day was shorter, and unskilled workers completed simple tasks
Reforming Local Government
17th amendment, Two senators from each state, each state has their own voice
Primaries- 1899 first statewide primary
Allowed citizens to elect senators, Led to electing presidents
Reforming the state levels
States passed laws to regulate railroads, mines, mills, telephone companies, etc.
Tuesday:
Before Civil War- woman were expected to stay home and work
After Civil War- needed woman because of many casualties to men
70% of women employed in 1870- servants
Immigrant women- poor/big household
Freed African American women
Working women started questioning rights
By 1900 1 out of 5 woman worked
Middle class worked to expand rights
From 1880 to 1910 women employment increased
Better paying opportunities in cities
New jobs in offices, stores, schools
The garment trade
Telephone operators
sought higher education or joined workforce
Applied work/education to social reforms
Needed education for jobs
Men's jobs became women's jobs
Teachers nurses social workers
1890 women were higher educated
women's education became more accepted
Labor unions
Hull house
Two women helping others learn
less fortunate
Sanitation English hygiene
NAWSA National American woman suffrage Association
1890 created by merging Explanatory Publications
1910- women's clubs turned into reform groups
half a million women invloved
Educated women helped strengthen reform groups
Social housekeeping improved conditions
Workplace, housing, education, food, and drug reform
Suffrage- to gain the right to vote
Female reform efforts paid off for
Safer working conditions
Better treatment of female workers
Safer food/drug products
having similar rights to men
Being able to vote
Roosevelt supported these ideals
Wednesday:
Susan B Anthony
Illegally voted during president election and she received a fine of 100$
Susette La Flesche Born in 1854 Omaha
Well known Native American writer, presenter, interpreter
spokesperson for Native American right
Friday:
Woman suffrage 3 steps:
State legislatures
Wyoming
Utah Colorado, Idaho
1896 efforts failed
Tested 14th amendment
19th amendment
Women can vote
1848 seneca Falls
WW1 support
Knitting socks/libery bonds
August 1920
72 years
New Tax System- Federal Income Tax- lower tariff right's
Government replace revenue
16th amendment
Large income=higher tax rates
Modest tax over 4,000
Government's main source of money
Federal Reserve System
Strengthen banks
Adjust money in circulation
Keep pace with economy
Private banking system
Safer, stable, and flexible
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