Notes from the 17th, 6th period, for your viewing enjoyment
First, G handed back chapters 13 and 14 quiz from a wile ago. He then proceeded to hand out the Chapter 17 through 20 test and we went over it. Then, he promptly took it back. As for notes, here they are:
Progressivism was a reform movement
Progressivism wanted to rid politics of corruption, tame the power of the trusts and in the process, inject more liberty into American life. Progressives fought against prostitution, gambling, drinking and the other forms of vise.
Progressives first appeared in city politics. They agreed that there was a need for government to right political, economic, and social wrongs by taxing income, regulation industry, protecting consumers from fraud, empowering workers, safeguarding the environment, and providing welfare.
Progressivism emerged most strongly among young, middle class Protestants who felt alienated from their society by the immorality and corruption rampart in politics and by the gap separating rich from poor.
The social gospel is backlash against the social Darwinism movement. It stated that the lower class poor members of society need help from the better off.
Muckrakers, who despite their name, was not a fancy name for a sewer worker, unless you take it to mean a sewer worker of society, witch they were, in a manner of speaking. They were investigative journalists who wanted to write the wrongs of society. G stopped here to say that we should remember a few of the important ones name, for instance: Jacob Riis wrote the book How the Other Half Lives about the slums of New York City. Ida Tarbell wrote about the business practices of Standard Oil.
Magazines, popular they were. People who didn’t live in the city with all of the "vices" would read magazines, a lot. That led to magazines being very widespread. Example, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Sewage worker of society (or of meat) that he was, wrote about the rather unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry in Boston.
The Ashcan school of art was realism; it was to show what is not written about society at that time.
Settlement houses and their services-they were like community centers, they had baby sitting, reading classes, and even parties. An important woman to know when talking about settleme
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