History Lecture 2 5 15 Progressivism II 1895 1915 Key Terms Prohibition Plessy vs Ferguson 1896 Ida B Wells I Emphasis on Morals A Moving toward Prohibition Limiting or banning the use of alcohol in the United States 1 2 Temperance Societies a Dissolved around the time of the Civil War b Alcohol could be taxed and make money for the war c The Temperance Army 1 See alcohol as a gateway for all things bad All the sins of society link back to alcohol 2 Carrie A Nation a Would go into different towns across the U S and would find the local bar and would read from the bible about sins related to alcohol Goes to the bar and smashes all of the bottles Individual states pass laws banning the sale and distribution of alcohol a 1918 Prohibits the manufacture and sale of alcohol in USA 3 4 18th Amendment 5 21st Amendment a 1933 Repeals the 18th Amendment 6 As a result of the ban of alcohol all of the crime that they hoped to stop in fact happened more B Youth Organizations 1 Taught kids values and skills that they wanted US citizens to follow a Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts b How to build a fire hiking outdoorsy element c Being kind to your fellow citizens 2 Children were not getting this knowledge from families and from schools C Education and Hygiene 1 Progressives published books to teach people about good hygiene education 2 Disease prevention II The Issues of Race A Plessy vs Ferguson 1896 1 Jim Crow Laws a All of the laws regulations and rules that were created in mainly southern states that essentially create a system of segregation b Transportation segregation happened on a large scale c Louisiana 1 Trolley car company that runs on segregation a Black cars and white cars 2 Homer Plessy a Classified in Louisiana as colored because if you looked at him he wouldn t see black 1 8th black b Sits in white section of the trolley gets arrested 3 Ferguson is judge in the court case In the original case under Ferguson homer is convicted a b Homer appeals his case and it is heard by Supreme Court in 1896 1 8 judges decided 7 to 1 against Ferguson 2 Separate but equal B Booker T Washington vs WEB DuBois 1 Booker T Washington a Segregationist 1 Believed that the major reason that blacks and whites were not seen as equals in that moment was due to financial disparities b Addressed this by separating blacks voluntarily as a community from whites in order to build up their own financial base c Education is key 1 African society needs all the tools to be able to make money 2 Wants education to be practical d Tuskegee Institute Alabama 1 School that Washington helps to build 2 On frontline of technology 3 Tuskegee Airmen e Didn t see segregation as permanent should only be as long as it takes for African Americans to build up financial base and then merge 1 Wants Blacks and Whites to start coexisting on every level of society 2 WEB DuBois a Integrationist immediately b Key to Integration Movement 1 Education C Lynching and Ida B Wells 1 Lynching a African Americans can be Doctors and Lawyers c NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1 Founded in 1909 2 Utilized the law and structures of government as much as possible to achieve integration 3 Not very successful until after WWII a Acts of murder committed against African Americans predominantly in the South b Committed by large groups of unmasked whites 1 Sometimes 100s or 1000s c Considered to be social occasions 1 Took pictures and souvenirs d Victims were accused of crimes with very questionable grounds of accusation e Could happen to anyone you know 2 Ida B Wells a Born into slavery and freed by 13th amendment b Self educated c Saved money and purchased a newspaper in Memphis TN devoted to the truth about lynchings 1 One paper was about a grocery store in Memphis a Owner was white and opened in black neighborhood b Whites robbed black store c Blacks are arrested for attempted murder and rape d Whites take 3 of the accused from the jail take them a mile out of town and shoot them d Raises awareness and goes on speaking engagements across the country e Tries to get Anti Lynching Laws 1 Never successful 2 Over 200 laws proposed written a 3 passed the house none passed the senate III Rating the Progressives A How successful were they B Problems remaining C Issues abroad