HIST 2112 1st edition Lecture 12Outline of Previous LectureI. “The Rectangle of Righteousness?” (Kansas)II. “Agrarian America”III. Industrialism’s Threats to FarmersIV. Forming “Alliances” (Unionized)V. The National Alliance’s Plan – the “Ocala Demands” (1890) and the “Omaha Platform” (1892)VI. 1892-96 – The Populist Party Outline of Current Lecture I. Beginnings of Progressivism (most effective reformers)II. Progressive CharacteristicsIII. Three Progressive StoriesCurrent Lecture I. Beginnings of Progressivism (most effective reformers) Made up of the middle class to upper middle class – the professionals, doctors, lawyers, the respectable folks They are not revolutionary They are bipartisan “Muckrakers – Tarbell, Sinclair, Riis, Seffans, etc.o The folks who exposed corruption The people who read those stories were shocked, because there upper lives are isolated from the poor. The middle-class response to “industrial chaos”o They see people shooting themselves on the streets and they see bloody chaos and are shockedo The professional people start to be concerned with the humanity, corruption, and the chaos having to do with the industryII. Progressive Characteristics Usually (not always) white, middle class, professional Often deeply committed ChristiansThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o Part of being saved for them unless they went out into the world and helped the unfortunateo Their actions are what showed they were saved. Often womeno Very few places in society where women could exercise political power but progressive movement was one of the places they could. The reason they could do that is because the men were busy with their work and gaining political power so the women were able to go out and try and improve the working class and care for those people Four major agendaso Political reform They wanted to clean up what they see as corrupt politics in the corrupt cities. They don’t like it when there are those political machines that are the people who run for a high position and in return for the people voting for them they give those voters things they want. Progressives hate it when the system is rigged, they want politics to be cleano Scientific efficiency o Economic reform Patronage is a form of corrupt politics. They are similar to unions in that they do not like big corporatepower, they don’t like monopolies. They are not as critical as the unions but they are still afraid of too much power being held in one hand. They believed if they didn’t reform than a revolution would come abouto Social Justice African-American Social justice W. E. B. Dubois – was a writer, activist, and was the second most important progressive leader- Booker T. Washington and him disagreed on a lot of stuff They believed most in getting rid of the Jim Crowe laws The “Social Gospel” movement – WWJD? The social gospel people were the opposite of social Darwinist They are all a part of a community, they must reach outto the poor They didn’t believe they were inferior to them or lazy. They were just in a bad situation and God wanted themto help those poor outIII. Three Progressive Stories Settlement Houses – Hull House, etc.o Dedicated to improving urban conditions Would offer daycare Would offer to teach people skills Would ensure that the city cleaned up the trash They tried to improve immigration liveso Jane Adams, Alice Hamiltono The Good Side – sincere efforts to help people, leads to increased female political activism, suffrage campaigns, etc.o The Bad Side – condescending? Self-centered? Very selfless of the women but it is a little condescending. Progressive reform sometimes tends to be patronizing. Reformers often don’t ask the people being reformed whetherthat is what they want. They try to turn the immigrants into protestant white Americans It is the same logic that happened to the American Indians For all the progressive reforms, they didn’t like the immigrants.They didn’t like how those immigrants thought and what they liked. o Woman’s suffrage movement grows out of all of this President Teddy Roosevelto Extremely successful careero He is worries about the monopolies and he decides to go after the corporations that are getting too big. He didn’t believe all corporations were corrupt but he went after a lot of them but not all Monopolies – tries to control them, though not always- 1902 – Northern Securities Company broken up. TR goes on to attack otherso Unions – often supports them. Mine workers and the “Square Deal,” First republican present to support strikers Wouldn’t send troops in to bust the coal workers He didn’t like all unions but a lot of them because he wanted industrialism to be clean o A lot of people in his party thought he was a little crazy because they didn’t support him in his thoughts of unions so he was kicked out ofthe party. He then moves on to create his own third party but doesn’t get faro A big environmentalist/conservationist Conservation – protecting land from industrial excesso Resources – should be managed efficiently by experts. National Forestsystem set up and run by scientific forester Gifford Pinchot.o Aesthetic resources needed – many national parks
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