Transcript Sources of Progressive reform

Progressive Reform
APUSH Period 5
Rose, Daniel, Leah
Labor, the Machine, and Reform
• Between 1911-1913, many labor reforms were
passed
Triangle shirtwaist fire
– Child labor law
– Workmen’s compensation law
– Limited working hours for women
• Reforms influenced by unions and party machines
being used as vehicles for social reform
– Tammany Hall and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Tammany Hall
Western Progressives
• The leaders of western progressives had
these traits:
-Isolationist policies about immigration.
-Similar to populists.
-Opposed the railroad business.
George Norris
William Borah
Hiram Johnson
Western Progressives
• Debated who owned land and natural
Resources
• Western Progressives had
to work with the Federal
Government in order to get
anything done.
African Americans and Reform
• African Americans faced greater obstacles.
– Legal, economic, social and political.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker t. Washington
Booker T. Washington
• Many embraced his message I the late 19th
century.
• “Put down your bucket where you are at.”
• Work for immediate self-improvement rather
than long-range social change.
W.E.B. Du Bois
• Challenged philosophy of Washington and entire
structure of race relations.
• Unlike Washington, never knew slavery.
• Born in Massachusetts, educated at Fisk University in
Atlanta and at Harvard.
• More expansive view than Washington.
• Launched an open attack on the philosophy of the
Atlanta Compromise in The Souls of Black Folk (1903).
• Accused Washington.
• Advocated full education for blacks.
NAACP
• In 1905, Du Bois and a group of his followers met at
Niagra Falls.
• 4 yeas later, they joined with white progressives.
• Whites held most offices at first, but Du Bois was the
guiding spirit.
• The new organization led the drive for equal rights.
• Within less than a decade, the NAACP had begun to
win some important victories.
• Guinn v. United States (1915).
• Buchanan v. Worley (1917).
• One of the nation’s leading black organizations.
The NAACP’s Strategy
• Was not a radical, or even an egalitarian,
organization.
• Relied on the “talented tenth”.
• Stressed for exceptional blacks to gain
positions of full equality.
• Focused on creating a leadership group.
Lynching
• Lynching was a huge problem for African
American organizations.
• Du Bois was an outspoken critic of lynching.
– Advocated a federal law making it illegal.
• Most determined opponents of lynching were
Southern women.
– Included white women such as Jessie Daniel Ames.
• The most effective crusader was Ida Wells
Barnett.
Baby Boomers
• People born during post WWII baby boom
• Seventy-six million American children born
between 1945 and 1964
• Associated with rejection or redefinition of
traditional values
• Considered much more liberal than their
parents
Minimum Wage Workers
• Federal minimum wage $7.25 per hour
– Decided in 2009
• Many workers cannot support
themselves/family on minimum wage
• Different minimum wages per state
• Supports of raising minimum wage say that
due to inflation it should be about $21 per
hour
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