Lecture 7 Social Patterns Of Urban And Industrial America
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The document discusses several key aspects of the Progressive Era in the United States from 1865 to the early 1900s. Progressives sought to curb corporate power, end monopolies, and protect workers. Notable reformers included journalists, novelists, and educator John Dewey. Settlement houses like Jane Addams' Hull House helped immigrants. Reforms included initiatives, referendums, recalls, child labor laws, and women's suffrage. Prohibition and birth control advocate Margaret Sanger aimed to regulate society. Middle-class progressives valued expertise and cooperation to regulate big business, as President Theodore Roosevelt did through trustbusting acts.
Lecture 7 Social Patterns Of Urban And Industrial America
- 1. Prof. Dani Vaughn-Tucker History 104: American History from 1865 to the Present Spring 2009
- 2. Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! - Emma Lazarus
- 3. Progressives wanted to Curb corporate power End business monopolies Wipe out political corruption Democratize electoral procedures Protect working people Bridge the gap between the social classes
- 4. Journalists Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Ray Stannard Baker Novelists Theodore Dreiser Upton Sinclair Thorstein Veblen Educator John Dewey
- 5. Promoted professional city managers Advocated public ownership of utilities
- 6. Settlement Houses Hull House founded by Jane Addams Often established in areas with recent European immigrants Residents lobbied for state and federal legislation to make changes in their living and working conditions
- 7. Initiative Referendum Recall 17 th Amendment Robert La Follette
- 8. Child labor laws Work hour reform Minimum wage Workmens compensation End to homework Triangle Fire (1911)
- 9. Prohibition Womens Christian Temperance Union Anti-Saloon League of America 18 th Amendment provided for prohibition 21 st Amendment repealed prohibition
- 10. Margaret Sanger Nurse Birth control advocate Believed in eugenics Considered to be a racist by those in opposition to her views on birth control
- 11. Middle class people who shared common values Supporters appreciated order, efficiency and expertise Supporters encouraged investigation, experimentation and cooperation
- 12. Major goal was the regulation of big business Theodore Roosevelt Known as a trustbuster Revived the Sherman Anti-Trust Act Pure Food and Drug Act Hepburn Act Nature conservationist