Social Issues of the Progressive Era - Washington State 社会问题的进步时代，华盛顿州.pptVIP

Social Issues of the Progressive Era Background for Broken Blossoms, The Birth of a Nation, and Within Our Gates Progressive Era Usually 1900 through U.S. entry into WWI (1918), although reforms dated from the late 1880s Belief in the power of governments at local, state, and national levels to effect political and social change For women, “national housekeeping” movement toward more involvement in government, including woman suffrage Progressive Era Issues Industrialism, unions, and worker safety (corporate rapacity) Population control and women’s sexuality Immigration Race Rise of organized crime Drug abuse and alcoholism Prostitution and “white slavery” Poverty and the urban underclass Urbanization, “overcivilization,” and the destruction of the wilderness Reforms and Reformers Theodore Roosevelt Cleaned up police corruption as Police Commissioner of New York City As President of the U.S. (1901-1908), established the National Parks system (Gifford Pinchot) Supported an investigation in United Mine Workers’ strike in 1892 that led to higher wages “Trust-buster” enforcing the Interstate Commerce Act (1887), the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) But--supported annexation of the Philippines and other imperial ventures Reforms and Reformers Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House (settlement house) Margaret Sanger, birth control movement W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Robert M. LaFollette (politician) William Jennings Bryan, presidential candidate John Dewey (education) Muckrakers Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act of 1906) Ida Tarbell, The History of The Standard Oil Company David Graham Phillips, “The Treason of the Senate” Ray Stannard Baker, The Right to Work Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives McClure’s Magazine Social Issues in Film “White slavery” Reginald Wright Kauffmann, The House of Bondage Traffic in Souls (1913) The Insid