Progressive Reformers
Reforms In Society
“Social Gospel”
He believed that by following the Bible’s teachings
of charity and justice people could make society a
better place.
Walter
Rauschenbusch
Many people followed his teachings and started
urging for a shorter work week and the end of
child labor.
Reforms In Society
Settlement House
Community center that provided social
services for the poor
Hull House in Chicago
Jane Addams
Reforms in Society
Child Labor Reform
Her work lead to:
Florence Kelley
1. the state of Illinois passing the first factory
law prohibiting employment of children under
age 14.
2. First women factory inspector
3. 10 hour work day for women
Reforms in Society
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
March 1911. A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in
New York City shocked Americans. When the fire
started workers had little chance to escape because the
managers had locked most of the exits. One hundred
and forty six workers, mostly women, were trapped and
died. (Prentice Hall, 421)
Reforms: NY made workplace safer, workers
compensation laws, laws limiting workday hours.
Quick Write
Using your notes organizer answer the following
question in your quick write.
 How did muckrakers and progressive reformers
help the urban poor? List 2 of the 3 reformers
and/or muckrakers and give examples of what
they did.
Hint words: photographer, settlement house, social gospel, fire
Reform Government
Progressive reformers
Reform
political
process to
reform society
This hurricane wiped out Galveston. More than
8,000 people were killed. The city realized it
didn’t have the structure in place to take care of
rebuilding so they replaced the mayor and board
of aldermen for a commission.
Galveston Texas
This model of government was
adopted in over 500 cities.
New city governments took the power away
from big bosses and political machines.
Reforms in Government
Laboratory of Democracy
Robert La Follette
Direct
primary
Initiative
In state and
local races,
citizens voted
for candidates
rather than
party leaders.
Citizens could
propose a new
law for the
next ballot
with enough
signatures.
referendum
recall
Citizens could
approve or
reject laws
passed by
legislation.
Power for
citizens to
remove
public
servants
from office
Progressive Women
Florence Kelley
Margaret Sanger
National Consumers
League (NCL)
Opened the first
birth control clinic
in Tucson, AZ 1936
Ida B. Wells
• 1896, helped form
National Association of
Colored Women
• Blocked segregated
schools in Chicago
• One of 1st black
women to run for office.
19th Amendment
June 1919
Congress Approved the 19th Amendment
November 2, 1920
Women were able to vote in their first presidential election.
African Americans-Reform
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B Du Bois
African Americans-Reform
•Born into slavery.
• Worked in manual labor and attended
seminary.
•Told blacks to have patience.
Booker T. Washington
• Learn trade skills.
• Eventually with respect and hard
work blacks would win the respect of
the whites and be given their full
rights.
African Americans-Reform
• Raised
in New England
• Went to Harvard
• Wanted blacks to
immediately demand
the rights guaranteed
by the constitution.
W.E.B Du Bois
Niagara Movement
Worried that black men in the south were
being denied the right to vote Du Bois and
others formed the Niagara Movement.
They met at Niagara Falls, but had
to stay in Canada since none of the
US hotels would give them a room.
This group disagreed with the gradual idea that Booker T Washington
proposed. They wanted immediate change.
Plus, they didn’t just want to teach trade skills but rather educate black men.
This movement never got the backing it needed to be
successful.
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Formed 1909
• Progressive Reforms and the Niagara
Movement helped form NAACP.
• Intention: protect the lives of blacks, secure
civil rights, and win the right to vote.
#2 Quick Write
If you were living in the Progressive Era whose
cause would you want to be involved in?
Explain your passion for this social reform and
why you would join forces with this progressive
reformer.