Week+23+Reading

Chapter 21 - The Progressive Era
__Mon 1/30__

For class Thursday/Friday:


 * Progressivism Hearings**

For tonight:

Read **text pp. 814-820**

Gov. Robert La Follette, the "Wisconsin Idea," immigration and urbanization, urban political machines/bosses, municipal corruption, Galveston hurricane of 1900, city commission system of government, professional city managers, centralization of municipal government and services, public utilities, Hazen Pingree, Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones, Tom Johnson, city charters of incorporation, Wisconsin as "laboratory of democracy," municipal civil service reform, graduated state income taxes, Gov. Hiram Johnson, progressives and ethnic minorities, "direct democracy" (initiative, referendum, and recall), 17th Amendment, state welfare boards/agencies/commissions, Carrie Chapman Catt, NAWSA, "Winning Plan," 19th Amendment

__Tues 1/31__

In class:

Progressivism DBQ:


 * Text pp. 820-827**

Progressivism and middle-class morality, prohibition and its politics, Anti-Saloon League, dry vs wet counties/cities/states, Eighteenth Amendment, anti-prostitution crusades, "White-Slave Traffic Act" aka 1910 Mann Act, Immigration Act of 1917, "yellow peril," Gentlemen's Agreement, black disfranchisement/Jim Crow, James K Vardaman,, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP legal campaign, //Guinn v. United States//, //Buchanan v. Worley,// African-Americans' "Great Migration" from the south, //US v. Shipp//, Ida Wells, anti-lynching legislation, W.E.B. Du Bois (pronounced "dew-boice"), //[|The Crisis]// (NAACP magazine founded by Du Bois), "Talented Tenth," Socialist Party of America, [|Industrial Workers of the World]/"Wobblies," Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger and contraception