HIST 2112 1st edition Lecture 12 Outline of Previous Lecture I The Rectangle of Righteousness Kansas II Agrarian America III Industrialism s Threats to Farmers IV 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 Characteristics III Three Progressive Stories Current Lecture I II 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 shocked o The professional people start to be concerned with the humanity corruption and the chaos having to do with the industry Progressive Characteristics Usually not always white middle class professional Often deeply committed Christians These 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 unfortunate o Their actions are what showed they were saved Often women o 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 agendas o 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 clean o Scientific efficiency o Economic reform Patronage is a form of corrupt politics They are similar to unions in that they do not like big corporate power 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 about o 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 out to the poor III They didn t believe they were inferior to them or lazy They were just in a bad situation and God wanted them to help those poor out 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 lives o Jane Adams Alice Hamilton o 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 whether that 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 Roosevelt o Extremely successful career o 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 others o 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 of the party He then moves on to create his own third party but doesn t get far o A big environmentalist conservationist Conservation protecting land from industrial excess o Resources should be managed efficiently by experts National Forest system set up and run by scientific forester Gifford Pinchot o Aesthetic resources needed many national parks created
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