AIM #49: What was the most important Gilded Age reform movement?
DO NOW!
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PLEASE HAVE OUT YOUR HW FROM LAST NIGHT AND BE
READY TO DISCUSS #S 2 AND 5
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PLEASE READ THE SPEECH BY SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND
READ THE ACCOMPANYING QUESTIONS ON THE FRONT
(I) Gilded Age Reform Movements
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Continuation of Antebellum reforms (those before the Civil War)
Women’s rights movement
1. Focuses on achieving suffrage and economic independence
2. (1890) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the American
Women’s Suffrage Association
3. (1869) Wyoming 1st state to give women the right to vote
4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics
c. Temperance Movement
1. Movement based on the idea that poverty was the result of alcohol abuse
2. Focused on prohibition of alcohol
3. (1874) Frances Willard started the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
(WCTU)
4. Carrie Nation: (interesting fact: she was 6’ tall…quite imposing!); known for
wielding a hatchet
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d. Famous Books
1.
Progress and Poverty by Henry George: criticized laissez faire economics and
proposed a single tax on land as a solution to poverty
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Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy: described a utopian
e. Social Gospel: movement to better urban conditions through biblical ideal of
charity
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Salvation Army and YMCA: address problems of urban youth
f. Settlement House movement: community center organized in the late
1800s to offer services
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Taught English to immigrants, day care, job training, food)
Jane Addams: Hull House (Chicago)
Henry Street Settlement (New York City)