Progressivism

Chapter 17

Labor Reform Unions

Knights of Labor Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Strikes Riots Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire The Jungle by Upton Sinclair -meat packing

industry. => Muckraker Muller v. Oregon

City Reform

City Planning Eliminate Slums Clean up cities -

Sanitation

Will produce better citizens

Moral Reform

Prohibition: 18th amendment: prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating beverages within the United States

National prohibition of alcohol (1920-33)--the "noble experiment"--was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America.

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

The Prohibition amendment of the 1920s was ineffective because it was unenforceable, it caused the explosive growth of crime, and it increased the amount of alcohol consumption. As a result of the money involved in the bootlegging industry, there was much rival between gangs. Crimes became very organized and intentional.

Prohibition Cartoons

Film Westerns

The Great Train Robbery Steamy romances

Sources of temptation Corrupting the youth

5th largest US industry

5-10 cents for a ticket

Wanted Censorship

The Great Train Robbery

Racial Reform

African Americans W.E. DuBois

Education Send African Americans back to Africa -moved to Ghana Joined Communist Party Founder of NAACP w/Jane Addams

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Urban League Racism continued

American Indian

Society of American Indians