HIST: March 29th pt one ( data: 2010-03-30 02:11:13 / wyświetleń: 321 / autor: chelimerri / pobierz notatkę na dysk )
Chapter 20: The progressive age
Progressivism: Reform Movement
What Was Wrong? Huge gap between the upper class and lowe class; plutocrats; hyper wealthy....there were no federal income taxes before nineteen eleven
Attempt to reform the ills of society
Hull House and Jane Addams : Reform people on the individual level
BENEVOLENT EMPIRE (ON OUR EXAM): attempt to remake society
prostitution and drinking
Jane Adams: 'twas evil' inviting the devil into your body
Eugenics: making society selective in terms of its breeding habits
Philosophy of Progressives:
counterpoint to Social Darwinists (those who believed they were better than everyone in society...if you cannot too bad), no absolute truths (everything is built in with wiggle room)
Muckrakers: uncover the social problems
Nelly Blie: locked herself in a sanitarium; and exposed how they treated them in insane asylums
Upton Sinclair: meatpacking industry in chicago; horrible life conditions
Expose the unfortunate truths of the world
Women's Movement:
More social reforms
Women's trade unions
Alice Paul: "Suffragettes", Confrontation: the right to vote. passive resistance (always works)
woman's role in early twentieth century: housekeeper, pregnant, seen and not heard
Feminism- a definition
Division within Women's Movement: Confrontation vs. Going along with the rules
before 1920 in Virginia: deaf people were sterilized.
Women in the west were doing the same jobs men could do...so women showed they could do it before women in the south and east. So women gained sufferage there first
Urban Liberalism and Reform Politics:
Progressive reform the states role in peoples lives especially the urban poor, Eugene Debs (violent overthrow of the united states government) and the Socialists, the iWW (american branch of the communist party)
Political reform, demand for direct primaries rather than party machine politics
African American advancement:
two distinctive parties
Booker T. Washington (founder of Tuskegee institute) vs. WEB Du Bois (direct confrontation radicalism)
1910: how senators were chosen changed....an amendment: allows for the election of senators by the people
NAACP white leadership, but Du Bois as idealogical foundation
Early Stages of the Great Migration: Economic opportunities in the north and midwest... african americans in the deep south moved to places where there were economic opportunities
Proggressive National Politics:
T. Roosevelt: confidence, and larger than life personality allowed the reform minded, election of 1900, mckinley at buffallo: killed
Roosevelt in the marketplace, government in the marketplace
The Trusts, Trust-busting (broke up standard oil), Election of 1904
Conservatism: protect beautiful pieces of land National Parks, expansion of the federal government/ the dumping of everything into the rivers
Upton Sinclair and the (pure foods act and pure drug act) FDA, square deal
Taft (governor the the Philippines) as alleged Roosevelt successor in 1908, fracturing of Republican progressives
Progressive Decline and Recovery
Taft as alleged Roosevelt in 1908, fracturing of Republican Progressives
Taft Administration, pro-business, anti-progressive ideals
Roosevelt's anger regarding his former ally, enters politics once more, the Insurgents
Republican convention of 1912, election of 1912
Wilson's progressive recovery, Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission (regulate interstate commerce and corporations), foundation of 20th century politics embodied by Taft, Wilson, and Roosevelt
Idiocracy