Eugenics: Who Were The Progressive Movement?
Who were the progressives? A way to describe a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about significant change in American social and political life. Progressives included forward looking businessmen who realized that workers must be accorded a voice in economic decision making, and labor activists bent on empowering industrial workers. Other major contributors to progressivism were members of female reform organizations who hoped to protect women and children from exploitation, social scientists who believed that academic research would help to solve social problems, and members of an anxious middle class who feared that their status was threatened by the rise of big business. MIDDLE CLASS!!!!
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The science that studied the alleged mental characteristics of different races.
How did this play into larger issues of the day? Gave anti-immigration sentiment an air of professional expertise.
Who were some of the more prominent individuals? hg wells g stanley hall frances galton
What legal case came to define the ideas? Buck vs bell
Who were the muckrakers? Those who used journalistic skill to expose the underside of America.
How did they accomplish their goals? By writing books about morale corruption, taking pictures of children working factory jobs.
Who were some of the more prominent individuals? Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Lewis Hine, Upton sinclair
What local issues led to the creation of new forms of local accountability in the progressive age?
Why was local corruption worse than state or national corruption for most American citizens?
What were the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution?
16TH-Authorized congress to enact a graduate income tax.
17th-Senators are chosen by popular vote, not state legislature.
18th-Prohibited the sale or production of liquor.
19th-Barred states from using sex as a right for …show more content…
In Hawaii we moved in and took over their sugar trade, we also overthrew their queen and annexed them later.
What did America do or not do?
How did America express its imperialistic ambitions?
What were the reasons the US became involved in a war with Spain in 1898? The Spanish were ill treating the people of cuba, the accidental explosion off the USS Maine, wanted CA and other land
What social crisis came out of that war when we examine the treatment of black soldiers?
How was racism in America expressed at the turn of the century?
What were some of the internal and external reasons for it? great migration jobs springfield lynching birth of a nation
How did the women’s suffrage movement progress in the aftermath of the Civil War?
Who were some of the more prominent members? lucy stone, stanton mott, stone, anthony
What controversies erupted between different groups?
What was the final strategy that provided success? NAWSA state by state
What was the significance of the McKinley Tariff? The tariff raised the average duty on imports to almost fifty percent, an act designed to protect domestic industries from foreign
The science that studied the alleged mental characteristics of different races.
How did this play into larger issues of the day? Gave anti-immigration sentiment an air of professional expertise.
Who were some of the more prominent individuals? hg wells g stanley hall frances galton
What legal case came to define the ideas? Buck vs bell
Who were the muckrakers? Those who used journalistic skill to expose the underside of America.
How did they accomplish their goals? By writing books about morale corruption, taking pictures of children working factory jobs.
Who were some of the more prominent individuals? Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Lewis Hine, Upton sinclair
What local issues led to the creation of new forms of local accountability in the progressive age?
Why was local corruption worse than state or national corruption for most American citizens?
What were the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution?
16TH-Authorized congress to enact a graduate income tax.
17th-Senators are chosen by popular vote, not state legislature.
18th-Prohibited the sale or production of liquor.
19th-Barred states from using sex as a right for …show more content…
In Hawaii we moved in and took over their sugar trade, we also overthrew their queen and annexed them later.
What did America do or not do?
How did America express its imperialistic ambitions?
What were the reasons the US became involved in a war with Spain in 1898? The Spanish were ill treating the people of cuba, the accidental explosion off the USS Maine, wanted CA and other land
What social crisis came out of that war when we examine the treatment of black soldiers?
How was racism in America expressed at the turn of the century?
What were some of the internal and external reasons for it? great migration jobs springfield lynching birth of a nation
How did the women’s suffrage movement progress in the aftermath of the Civil War?
Who were some of the more prominent members? lucy stone, stanton mott, stone, anthony
What controversies erupted between different groups?
What was the final strategy that provided success? NAWSA state by state
What was the significance of the McKinley Tariff? The tariff raised the average duty on imports to almost fifty percent, an act designed to protect domestic industries from foreign