Progressive Era

Progressive Era

1. Time period

   • 1890-1920

2. Working conditions

   • Progressives addressed workplace efficiency and safety standards, child labor, workmen's compensation, minimum wages, and working hours for women.
   • Labor unions went on strike and demanded better working conditions and shorter hours.

3. Growing cities

   • In the nation's growing cities, factory output grew, small businesses flourished, and incomes rose.
   • The promise of jobs and higher wages attracted more and more people into the cities. The mass migration of people into the cities went well for some and caused problems for others.

4. Women's rights

   • Progressive reformers wanted to end political corruption, improve the lives of individuals, and increase government intervention to protect citizens.
   • They worked to gain the right to vote, they also worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms.

5. Environmentalism

   • During the late nineteenth century, American industrialization, the expansion of railroads into the West, and the rise of large corporations led to the widespread destruction of areas of the Plains, as well as increased pollution of land and water.
   • Was a social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and the improvement of the health of the environment

6. Definition

   • The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.

7. Racial Disctrimination

   • African Americans were faced with consistent racism in the form of segregation in public spaces and disenfranchisement from the political process. Access to quality healthcare, education, and housing was scarce.
   • African American reformists emerged to fight for equal rights in the United States.
   • African American reformers- Booker T. Washington, Ida D. Wells, and William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

8. NAACP

   • The NAACP's main goal was to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens. To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States. To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.
   • Founded- February 12, 1909, New York, NY