Honors American History
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Looking at the previous class,
compare/contrast the view points of Booker
T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois.
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Progressivism
◦ This was a loosely organized political movement
comprised of many different ideals and calls for
reform.
 Middle-class educated
 Defenders of urbanization and industrialization
 Faith in new technology
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Temperance
◦ This is the idea that the consumption and
production of alcohol should be limited or banned.
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Women’s Christian Temperance Movement◦ This group originally pushed the ideals of
temperance.
 The eventually pushed for complete prohibition laws.
 Their push for these prohibition laws eventually lead to
the passage of the 18th amendment.
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Suffrage-
◦ Suffrage is the right to vote
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The national American Woman Suffrage
Association.
◦ This group fought for Woman’s suffrage
 At first their efforts were unsuccessful, but by the end of
1912 women had voting rights in Washington, Oregon,
California, Arizona, and Kansas.
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Alice Paul, a social worker, wanted to use
protests to try and force newly elected Woodrow
Wilson into supporting a suffrage amendment.
◦ He did not support an amendment, but did support state
voting rights.
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19th amendment
◦ In June of 1919, the 19th amendment was passed by
Congress after the previous years battle with antisuffrage Senators.
◦ Then on August 26th, 1920 three-fourths of the
states voted to ratify the 19th amendment.
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This amendment finally gave women the right
to vote on a national level.
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In the year 1900, 1.7 million children under
the age of 16 were working in factories.
◦ John Spargo a “muckraker”, looked at some of the
horrors of child labor. Spargo showed instances
where:
 Children were paid 60 cents for a 10 hour days worth of
work.
 Children's hands and backs were permanently crippled.
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These results lead to laws limiting working
hours for children, minimum working ages,
and some states passed compulsory
education laws.
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Lead by Robert La Follette, Governor of Wisconsin, the
Progressives pushed for reform in government. One of
those reforms was:
◦ A direct primary-
 A system of candidacy where all party members could for a candidate in
the general election.
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Progressives in other states also pushed for reforms such
as:
◦ The initative-
 Allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation that required a vote
by the legislature.
◦ The Referendum-
 Allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters for approval.
◦ The Recall-
 Allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected
official from office before their term had expired.