Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics (New York: Macmillan, 1902). The plan advocated state-level reforms to electoral procedures. (67.) She castigated African American men for having voted for him in 1912.80 African American Progressives hoped that serving in the military and organizing on the home front during the war would result in equal citizenship when the war ended. Ida M. Tarbell, in The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904); and Frank Norris, in Octopus: A Story of California (1901), expose business practices. Some of them can be criticized for believing that they possessed the best vision for a modern, Progressive future. Henceforth, male and female workers would be unequal under the law, limiting women’s economic opportunities across the decades, rather than shifting the legal landscape. The democratizing ideals of the Progressive era lived beyond the time period. View all related overviews Access to the complete content on Oxford Handbooks Online requires a subscription or purchase. Ida M. Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company (New York: McClure, Phillips, 1904); Frank Norris, The Octopus: A Story of California (New York: Doubleday, 1901); and Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (New York: Jungle Publishing, 1906). Social justice Progressives wanted an activist state whose first priority was to provide for the common welfare. Southern senators blocked the Dyer antilynching bill (1922). Political corruption seemed endemic at all levels of government. Most middle-class urban Progressives deemed municipal ownership too socialist. He rejected new conservation proposals as violating congressional authority and possessing no legal standing. Eric Rauchway, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003), 189–200. Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991), 102, shortchanges women’s Progressivism, saying it “merely extended the boundaries of women’s sphere to the realm of ‘social housekeeping’”; Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 19–20, 239–240, calls them “social maternalists” rather than social justice Progressives and claims that they were motivated by “sentiment” and focused on protecting “women’s weakness.” For Chicago women’s clubs, see Elizabeth Belanger, “The Neighborhood Ideal: Local Planning-Practices in Progressive-Era Women’s Clubs,” Journal of Planning History 8.2 (May 2009): 87–110. A key proposal of the Wisconsin Idea was to replace the existing party control of all nominations with a popular direct primary. (29.) (21.) She was kept on at the university, but by 1920 the sociology department directed social sciences away from seeking practical solutions to everyday life that had linked scholarly inquiry with social responsibility. Frederic Howe, The City: The Hope of Democracy (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1905). (2.) Amy Bridges, Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999); Bradley R. Rice, “The Galveston Plan of City Government by Commission: The Birth of a Progressive Idea,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 78.4 (April 1975): 365–408; and Schiesl, The Politics of Efficiency, 136–137 for Des Moines. The General Federation of Women’s Clubs (1890) coordinated women’s activities throughout the country. Alan Dawley, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), 81. (6.) (51.) Addams remained firm against the war as antihumanitarian and was vilified for her pacifism.71 La Follette voted against the declaration of war, charging that it was being promoted by business desires and that it was absurd to believe that it would make the world safe for democracy. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings, is the most complete analysis of this internationalism. The public forums movement promoted by men, such as Charles Sprague Smith and Frederic Howe, was a top-down effort in which prominent speakers addressed pressing issues of the day to teach the “rank and file” how to practice democracy.15 In Boston, Mary Parker Follett promoted participatory democracy through neighborhood centers organized and run by residents. Julie Greene, Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881–1917 (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 219, 279; and Shelton Stromquist, Reinventing the “People”: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006), 66. Abbott briefly held an academic position at Wellesley, but she resigned to join the other women in applying her training to social research and social activism. The residents of Hull House published an investigative survey of living conditions in their neighborhood in Hull House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing out of Social Conditions (1895). Belle Case La Follette opposed incursion into Mexico and denounced all militarism as driven by greed, suspicion, and love of power.67, Many Progressives opposed war as an assault on an international collective humanity. Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.Find this resource: Flanagan, Maureen A. The 1907 Immigration Act also stripped citizenship from women who married noncitizens, a situation only reversed in 1922. Progressive Herbert Croly believed that the country needed to forcibly pacify some areas in the world in order for the United States to establish an American international system.59 The Progressive Party platform (1912) declared it imperative to the people’s welfare that the country expand its foreign commerce. The hostility of the male-dominated American Medical Association and the Public Health Service to Sheppard-Towner and to its administration by the Children’s Bureau, along with attacks against the social justice network of women’s organizations as a communist conspiracy to undermine American society, doomed the legislation.11, Women established settlement houses, voluntary associations, day nurseries, and community, neighborhood, and social centers as venues in which to practice participatory democracy. He created the Bureau of Immigration to enforce these provisions. Antimonopoly Progressivism required rethinking the relationship between business and government, introducing new legislation, and modifying a legal system that consistently sided with business. The Supreme Court (1918) ruled the law unconstitutional because it violated state powers to regulate conditions of labor. David Brian Robertson is the Curators' Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri‐St. Useful autobiographies are Tom Johnson, My Story (New York: B. W. Heubsch, 1913); Louise DeKoven Bowen, Growing Up with a City (New York: Macmillan, 1926); Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (New York: Macmillan, 1910); Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida. Although he was generally against Progressivism, President William McKinley annexed Hawaii (1898), saying that the country needed it even more than it had needed California.58 The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) declared that intervention in the Caribbean was necessary to secure economic stability and forestall foreign interference in the area. Previous movements, such as the Mugwump faction of the Republican Party and the Knights of Labor, had challenged existing conditions in the 1870s and 1880s. Women organized peace marches and founded a Women’s Peace Party. (60.) Most of them believed the country was not yet ready for such a cultural shift. (74.) Members of the NWTUL were organizers for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877–1919 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1987), 150. Walter Lippmann worked on government projects. (33.) The league urged all city residents to monitor pollution in their neighborhoods.29 The Baltimore Women’s Civic League made smoke abatement a principal target for improving living and working conditions.30 The cost-benefit argument usually won out over the health-first one. By the late 1960s, scholars began to examine the role of other groups in reform movements, ask different questions, and utilize different sources. American imperialism based on economic and financial desires became referred to as “Dollar Diplomacy.”60. Such earlier movements either tended to focus on the problems of a particular group or were too small to effect much change. (85.) The Elkins Act (1903) gave Congress the power to regulate against predatory business practices; the Hepburn Act (1906) gave it authority to regulate railroad rates; the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) did the same for those industries. Arising from earlier working women’s societies and with Florence Kelley at its head, the NCL investigated working conditions and urged women to use their consumer-purchasing power to force manufacturers to institute new standards of production. (89.) … Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings, 108–109. Congress made Sheppard-Towner a “sunset” act to run for five years, after which it would decide whether to renew it. Emily Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999). The 19th Amendment was passed during the Progressive Era. Most of these efforts were also racially exclusive, but African American women established venues of their own. For political Progressives, good government also meant using professional expertise to plan city growth and reorder the urban built environment. If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code. (52.) Reforming the banking and currency systems, pursuing some measure of antitrust (antimonopoly) legislation, shifting from a largely laissez-faire economy, and moderately restructuring property relations would produce government in the public interest. (14.) Payne, Reform, Labor, and Feminism, 95–107. (64.) DeSantis, The Shaping of Modern America, 194–199. Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, 1900–1933. They sought to revitalize a democratic promise of justice and equality and to move the country into a modern Progressive future by eliminating or at least ameliorating capitalism’s worst excesses. In 1895, the Supreme Court in Ritchie v. People ruled that such legislation violated the “freedom of contract” provision of the Fourteenth Amendment. Social justice Progressives lobbied municipal governments to enact new ordinances to ameliorate existing urban conditions of poverty, disease, and inequality. Manuscript collections for national and local organizations and individuals include those of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, National Association of Colored Women, Ellen Gates Starr, Women’s City Club of New York, Sophonisba Breckinridge, National Women’s Trade Union League, National Consumers League, and Theodore Roosevelt. (24.) (72.) Louis Brandeis and Father John Ryan promoted the living wage as a right of citizenship for male workers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.Find this resource: Sklar, Martin J. B. (26.) (9.) During the Progressive Era (from the 1890s and to the 1920s), American social reformers invented ways to overcome Constitutional constraints on national action, the limited abilities of state governments, the separation of government powers, and patronage-based political parties.

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