Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 17, Lesson 3: Competing Crusades (pp. 513-519)
I. Moral Reform
B. Temperance reformers fought against alcohol and, in 1917, helped convince Congress to pass the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited making or selling alcohol.
C. Progressives fought to end child labor, but only managed to pass limited, ineffective reforms.
II. Radical Political Movements
B. The anarchist movement, which opposed all forms of government, was fairly small and died out by the 1940s.
C. The Industrial Workers of the World was a radical union that accepted all workers as members, but by the 1920s the federal government had destroyed its power.
B. The national suffrage movement gained strength after individual states passed suffrage laws and after World War I began and women took over the home front.
C. In 1920, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
B. Many states passed laws that prevented blacks from voting, forced blacks to use separate schools, restrooms, restaurants, and trains, and contributed to violence against blacks.
C. Black reformers such as Ida Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois spoke out against racial injustice, and urged black Americans to demand their civil rights.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, women were a major force in almost every movement for moral reform.
A. The Socialist Party criticized many aspects of capitalism and gained power in several elections in the early 1900s.
III. Women's Rights
A. At the beginning of the Progressive Era, the women's suffrage movement was split and faced much opposition.
IV. Progressivism for Whites Only
A. Blacks suffered violence and legal oppression in the same years that Progressives worked to correct other problems.
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