Transcript 9.1 & 9.2 Progressive Era Movement notes.ppt

Progressive
Movement – what
was it?
Aimed to return control of the
government to the people
Restore economic opportunity
Correct injustices in American life
Four Goals of Progressivism
Protecting social welfare – change
conditions of industrialization
 Promoting moral improvement – morality,
changing society’s behavior (prohibition)
 Creating economic reform – questions
capitalist economic system
 Fostering efficiency – reforming the
workplace through efficiency
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How did the movement start?
Middle class citizens wanting to address
the social problems, issues, and concerns
 Biggest advocates of the movement women
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Women of the
Progressive Era
Workers, Reformers, &
Suffragettes
The “new” woman
Pre Civil War women (middle class women)
 Devoted time to care of their home &
families
 Late 19th century, women’s role changed
 Upper/middle class women stayed home
 Poor women had to work
The Worker
Farms
 Domestic work/farm labor
Industry
 25% of women worked in factories
 Least skilled positions
 Single women rather than married women
 Office work, i.e. bookkeepers, stenographers
Domestic
 Cooks, laundress, maids, servants
 Doing work for others families
The Reformer/Suffragette
Working on equality & vote (suffrage)
 Convince state legislatures to grant
women voting rights
 Court cases to test 14th amendment
 Pushed for national constitutional
amendment to grant women voting rights
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