Topic: Unit 7 Lesson 2‐ Social, State, and Women Reformers ...
Topic: Unit 7 Lesson 2\ Social, State, and Women Reformers
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Progressives were outraged at the ________________of industrial society so they made their own
efforts at social reform
_______________________: ran a settlement house in Chicago called the Hull House
____________________Houses were usually situated in slum neighborhoods and provided services
to immigrants and the urban poor (classes, English lessons, childcare, nursing of the sick, help
obtaining naturalization)
Some had dining halls, gymnasiums, auditoriums, nurseries and classrooms and were ran by
________________, educated women who lived alongside the immigrant poor who lived in them
o Campaigned for better trash collection and sewers, hospitals and other public services and
there were more than _______houses operating in the U.S.
Other Progressives formed associations to promote social ______________and professional
__________________
o Organized charities, clubs, and other associations such as the American Bar Association, the
National Woman Suffrage Association, the ______________(National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People), and the ______________________________League
(opposed anti\Semitism and religious prejudice generally)
____________________refers to the town or city level of government and in many cities it had
been dominated by a political machine which then used its control over city governments to make
a fortune out of lucrative public contracts (to work for the city, each contractor had to promise to
pay a share of receipts secretly to the machine and the graft made city government overly
expensive and inefficient)
mobilized the votes of citizens who were tired of corruption & _____________ corruptions through
muckrakers in newspapers, magazines and books (like Lincoln Steffens The Shame of the Cities)
Reformers replaced political machines with public\minded mayors (who expanded city
____________ to care for overcrowding, fire hazards, inadequate sanitation and lack of public
services, in some cases they acquired direct control of utilitieswater, electricity, gas)
New forms of city governments were created to discourage corruption: city __________________:
governed by a panel of experts who directed a department delivering an essential city service and
city ________________: an elected board of citizens appointed a specially\trained manager to run
the city government more efficiently; city manager had to report to the board ? goal was to make
city govt more democratic and transparent and less open to corruption
Progressive Governor __________________________________ of Wisconsin from 1900 to 1906:
he broke the power of local political bosses and influence of railroads over the state legislature;
began __________ railroads at the same rate as other property, set up a special commission to
______________ railroads; started other commissions to regulate public ___________, conserve
forests and waters against industrial exploitation and pollution; relied on _________________s
advice = faith in solving problems scientifically
Other important Progressives: ____________________Roosevelt and Charles Evans Hughes (in
New York), Hiram _______________(California), _________________________ (New Jersey) and
these states acted as labs for political and social reforms & many measures were later adopted
federally
Political reforms designed to prevent governments from the influence of Big Business and
corruption:
o ______________________: voters marked their ballots in private instead of voting openly
(makes them less subject to pressure and intimidation)
o ______________________: voters could directly introduce bills into the state legislature
o ______________________: Voters could repeal a law already passed by the legislature through
a special election
o _______________: elected officials could be dismissed from office by voters in a special
election
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_________________________: party members voted in a special election to indicate
preferences for their partys nominees (before thisparty leaders chose their candidates)
o Direct Election of _______________________: Constitution originally gave state legislatures
the power to select U.S. Senators but the ________th Amendment (1913) changed the
Constitution by giving voters the power to directly elect their Senators
o Womens _______________: the National Woman Suffrage Association was founded in 1869
and represented millions of women and was active to achieve voting rights for women. Under
the Constitution individual states controlled the requirements for voting (even in federal
elections), many states (esp. in the West) gave women the right to vote
Enacted laws to deal with worst social and economic effects of industrialism: laws regulating
conditions in urban ______________, against the employment of __________, regulating safety
and health conditions, limiting the number of hours women could work, forcing employers to give
compensation to workers injured on the job (_______________________________), regulating
railroads and public utilities, conserving natural resources and wildlife preserves, prohibiting the
sale of alcohol (Temperance Movement)
In 1911 a _________at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in NYC led to deaths of 146 female workers
because its doors were bolted and there werent fire escapes, conditions that were previously
protested by striking workers ? this led to widespread _________________for the garment
workers and the passage of new laws providing fire safety codes for factories
State reformers were severely limited by the U.S. Supreme Court:
o ________________ v New York (1905): Court held that a NY state law limiting the working
hours of bakers to 60 hours a week = unconstitutional (regulation of hours took away freedom
from employers and employees to negotiate their own contracts and working conditions)
o _________________v Oregon (1908): Supreme Court upheld Oregon law limiting the working
hours of women (special circumstances justified state intervention)
Women faced many obstacles to participation in public life: couldnt __________, few attended
college, couldnt enter most professions, considered intellectually inferior to men
_________________________________ (1820\1906): grew up in a Quaker family in
Massachusetts, began her reform activities in support of the Temperance Movement and as an
abolitionist; after the Civil War she believed it was time for women to have the right to
__________, started publishing The Revolution (weekly journal for womens rights), co\founded the
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA); voted in the election of 1872 on the basis of the
14th Amendment (court ruled rights did not extend to women) for the next ______ years she fought
for womens rights but didnt live to see the passage guaranteeing women the right to vote but
predicted it would come
_________________________________(1859\1932): prominent social reformer who studied at
Cornell University and in Switzerland. From 1891\1899 she lived in Hull House (Chicago); fought to
establish a minimum ________, 8\hour work day, against child labor and conditions in sweatshops.
In 1893, Governor of Illinois made Kelley the states chief factory _________________; persuaded
the Supreme Court to limit womens workday in Muller v. Oregon and in 1909 became one of the
founders for the _______________
____________________________(1859\1947): active in Iowas suffrage movement & developed a
close friendship with Susan B. Anthony became President of NAWSA in 1900; in 1920, Catt founded
the League of Womens Voters, fought for womens rights overseas & international peace. In 1933
she was one of the first to protest against the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany
_______________________(1885\1977): daughter of wealthy Quakers, attended Swarthmore
College, obtained both Ph.D. & a law degree; visited England where she became active in the
suffrage movement, brought back more militant tactics; Paul organized a march in DC on behalf of
womens ______________ in 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilsons inauguration; 1916 she left
NAWSA to form a more militant group (picketed the White House in 1917 and was arrestedshe
went on a hunger strike and had to be force\fed but helped convince Wilson to give women the
right to vote); in 1923, she proposed the __________Rights Amendment
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