three types of progressive reform

Three Types of Progressive Reform

Who is Your Favorite Progressive?

A. TR

B. Jane Addams

C. Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis and Social Control

How the Other Half Lives (1890): Influences Humanitarians and Conservatives

TR: “The Most Useful Citizen of New York”

Did book perpetuated ethnic and racial stereotypes?

Photographic Technique of Riis Cast Immigrant Poor as Passive Victims

Photographic Technique of Riis Cast Immigrant Poor as Passive Victims

Photographic Technique of Riis Cast Immigrant Poor as Passive Victims

“In the Home of an Italian Rag Picker, Jersey Street” (1888)

Jane Addams and “Social Justice” Progressives

Addams: college-educated, upper-middle-class background

Frustrated ambitions and strong sense of social obligation

Ellen Gates Starr & Social Gospel

Settlement Home Movement: Hull House (1889)

Jane Addams

Activities of Settlement Homes

Community Center: Housing, Nursery, Adult Classes

Activities of Settlement Homes

Community Center: Housing, Nursery, Adult Classes

Collection of Social Statistics

Activities of Settlement Homes

Community Center: Housing, Nursery, Adult Classes

Collection of Social Statistics

Legislative reforms: child labor, public playgrounds, protection for women factory workers

Blending Reform and Conservative Impulses:T.R. Active, Energetic:

“The Strenuous Life”

Blending of Reform and Conservative Impulses:T.R.

Active, Energetic Rough Rider in Cuba

(Nationalism)

Blending of Reform and Conservative Impulses:T.R. Active, Energetic Rough Rider in

Cuba McKinley’s VP

Blending of Reform and Conservative Impulses:T.R. Active, Energetic Rough Rider in

Cuba McKinley’s VP President, 1901-

1908 (Republican)

T. R. and the “Golden Mean”

TR, “Right of the People to Rule, 1912”

Why did TR criticize the French Revolution

A. It was too French.

B. Moderates were ignored in favor of conservatives and radicals.

C. He thought Napoleon was way too short.

T. R. as “Conservative Progressive”

T. R. and Coal Strike of 1902

Was T. R. “Conservative Progressive?”

T. R. and Coal Strike of 1902

Trustbusting: J. P. Morgan and Northern Securities Case (1902).

Was T. R. “Conservative Progressive?”

T. R. and Coal Strike of 1902

Trustbusting: J. P. Morgan and Northern Securities Case (1902).

Railroads: Elkins Act (1903) and Hepburn Act (1906)