Transcript Slide 1
Reform
Solutions to city problems
PROGRESSIVES- make positive
changes in America
Prohibition
Ban on the manufacture and sale of
alcoholic beverages
Temperance Movement
Prohibition Party (1869)
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
(1874)
Anti- Saloon League(1893)
Opposed alcohol because they saw it as the
cause of personal tragedies
Undermined morals
Religious undertones
18th Amendment (Volstead Act) bans
alcohol (1919)
More than half of the nation was already
“dry”
Prohibition Era 1919-1933
Speakeasies
- illegal clubs where liquor was sold
Bootleggers
- producers of illegal booze (danger)
(local ties)
Some imported from Canada
Al Capone
Detroit liquor bust
Raid in Ontario, Canada
1933- 21st Amendment repeals
(reverses) Prohibition
Why?
Cost made it not worthwhile
Dangerous alcohol!
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Nativism
Favoring native-born Americans over
immigrants
Various organizations (Immigration
Restriction League, Know-nothing Party)
promoted nativism (successes?)
Other Reform
Social Gospel-apply Christianity to
society
Settlement house- type of community
center for urban poor
Jane Addams- Hull House in Chicago
Classes, crafts, child care, camps, health
care
Hull House
Expansion of Public
Education
Most children attended elementary
school
1870- only 2% of students graduated
high school
1900- 32 states had passed laws making
school compulsory
Literacy
-ability to read and write
Challenge for immigrants
Child labor laws increased number of
children in school
School year increased (average) 78 days
to 144!