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Progressivism Goal 3: Promoting Social Welfare
New Seats! Don’t Get Comfortable!
Bell-Ringer:
What issue that affects the lives of ordinary Americans do you most care about? Why is this issue important to you and what do you want to change about it?
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Protecting Social Welfare
• Improve the harsh conditions of industrialization
• Service the poor and immigrants• Promote women’s rights and equality outside
home• Consumer Protection• Advocate African-American rights
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Improving Industrial Conditions
• Florence Kelley and the inspection of factories
• Prohibition of child labor
• Limiting working hours• Raising wages• Installing safety
standards
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Women’s Rights
• Advocating for higher education of women
• Women’s suffrage– Begins at state level– Bringing cases to court– Pushing for national
constitutional amendment• Nineteenth Amendment
(1919) grants women the vote
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Servicing the Poor• Social Gosepl Movement and
Settlement Houses (i.e. Hull House):– Community Centers– Churches– Education– Social services (daycare,
extracurriculars)• YMCA (libraries, sports leagues)• Salvation Army: soup kitchens,
nurseries, instruction in middle-class values (hard work, thrift, temperance)
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African-American Rights• Presidential leadership on
issue is weak• Two key leaders:
– Booker T. Washington: black schools, accommodates segregationists, accepts discrimination
– W.E.B. DuBois: founds NAACP and advocates full equality and end to segregation
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Consumer Protection• Publication of Jungle by
muckraker Upton Sinclair leads to Meat Inspection Act– Strict cleanliness
• Lax drug regulations and pharmaceutical practices produces Pure Food and Drug Act– Halts sale of contaminated
foods and drugs– Truth in labeling of products