The Era of Progressivism

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• The Era of Progressivism

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• MAIN THEMES
• That all progressives shared an optimistic vision
  that an active government could solve
  socioeconomic problems and create a better, more
  ordered and efficient world.
• That progressives wanted to reduce the influence
  of party machines on politics.
• How the temperance, immigration restriction, and
  woman suffrage movements took on crusade-like
  aspects.
• How progressivism was a reaction to the rapid
  industrialization and urbanization of the United
  States in the late nineteenth century.
• The importance of political leadership for the
  progressive movement.
• That American foreign policy became much more
  interventionist, especially in the Caribbean.

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Philosophers of the Via Media Pragmatists
William James (1842-1910) John Dewey
(1859-1952) Hermeneutics Friedrich
Schlermacher (1768-1834) Wilhelm Dilthey
(1833-1911)
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Politics of the Via Media Social Gospel
Richard Ely (1854-1943) Walter Rauschenbusch
1861-1918 Social Democrates Beatrice and
Sidney Webb Jean Jaures (1859-1914) Eduard
Berstein (1850-1932) Progressives Max Weber
1864-1920 Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
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The Rise of Progressivism

• The Progressive Impulse
• The Muckrakers and the Social Gospel
• Charles Francis Adams
• Lincoln Steffens
• Ida Tarbell
• The Allure of Expertise
• Scientific Analysis Management
• Taylorism
• Thorstein Veblen

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The Rise of Progressivism

• The Progressive Impulse
• The Professions
• 1895 National Association of Manufactures
• 1901 -American Medical Association 1901
• 1916 48 States with Bar Associations
• Other
• Military Eduction
• Education
• American Association of University Professors

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The Rise of Progressivism

• The Assault on the Parties
• Early Attacks
• Split Tickets
• Election reform
• Statehouse Progressivism
• Initiatives Referendums
• Robert LaFollette

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• Voter Participation

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• Other Sources of Progressive Reform
• Labor, the Machine, and Reform

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911
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The Rise of Progressivism

• Sources of Progressive Reform
• African Americans and Reform
• 1905 Niagara Movement (WEB Du Dois)
• 1909 - NAACP

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The Rise of Progressivism

• Crusades for Order and Reform
• The Temperance Crusade

Frances Willard 1839-1898
Carry A. Nation 1846-1911
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REALLY RADICAL WOMEN
Fanny Wright 1795-1852
Margaret Sanger 1879-1966
Victoria Woodhull 1838-1927
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• Crusades for Order and Reform
• Immigration Restriction

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The Rise of Progressivism

• Crusades for Order and Reform
• The Dream of Socialism
• Socialist Party strength
• Wobblies
• William Haywood

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1864 1st INTERNATIONAL - Marx founds the
International Workingmen's Association. 1889
2nd INTERNATIONAL - Paris 1919 3rd
INTERNATIONAL - Lenin / Comintern 1929 4th
INTERNATIONAL - Trotskyist
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  1829 - Workingmans Party formed in New
York 1869 - Knights of Labor 1877
- Socialist Labor party, Daniel De Leon 1894 -
Pullman Strike in Chicago 1901 - Socialist
Party, Eugene Debbs 1905 - Industrial Workers
of the World 1919 - Communist Party 1935 -
Congress of Industrial Organizations, John L.
Lewis  
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• Crusades for Order and Reform
• Decentralization and Regulation
• Louis D. Brandeis
• Good Vs. Bad trusts
• Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Presidency
• The Square Deal
• Interstate Commerce Acts
• Pure Food and Drug Acts
• Labor legislation
• The Troubled Succession
• Spreading Insurgency
• Progressive dominance
• Anti-Trust legislation
• La Follettes downfall

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• Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom

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• Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
• Income Tax XVI Ammendment
• Continued Segregation
• Keating-Owen Act

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• The Big Stick America and the World,1901 1917
• Roosevelt and CivilizationThe Big Stick
  America and the World,1901 1917
• Protecting the Open Door in Asia
• Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
• Panama Canal (1914)
• 1915 - Mexico
• 1915 Haiti Intervention

Theodore Roosevelt in hunting attire (Library
of Congress)
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• The Iron-Fisted Neighbor

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The Rise of Progressivism

• Debating the Past PROGRESSIVISM

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CONDEMNATION OF LIBERALISM BY THE CHURCH 1798
Abduction of Pius VI at Napoleonss
orders. 1800-1846 Gregory XVI "Il trionfo
della Santa Sede" (1799) Encyclical "Mirari
Vos" (1832) 1846 1878 Pope Pius IX "De
Fide" of the Vatican Council (1870) Encyclical
"Quanta cura" (1864) and the attached
Syllabus Allocution of 17 April, 1907 Decree
of the Congregation of the Inquisition
(1907) 1878 - 1903 Leo XIII Encyclical
""Libertas" (On Human Liberty) (1888) Encyclical
" "Humanum genus" (On Freemasonry) (1884)
Encyclical " "Rerum novarum" (On the
Social Question) (1891) Encyclical "Graves de
communi" (1901)
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The Rise of American Fundamentalism
1900-1920 1910-1915 The Fundamentals published
promotes conservative teaching, a twelve-volume
set of essays designed to combat Liberal
theology 1910Northern Presbyterian Church
affirms five essential doctrines inerrancy of
the Bible, the Virgin Birth, Christ's
substitutionary atonement, his bodily
resurrection, and miracles 1919World's
Christian Fundamentals Association formed, the
largest and longest-lasting (until the 1940s)
international fundamentalist association
1920Curtis Lee Laws, editor of the Baptist
Watchman-Examiner, coins the term fundamentalist
1920Conservatives in the Northern Baptist
Convention organize the Fundamentalist Fellowship
to combat spreading liberalism
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Fundamentalism

• The literal inerrancy of the Scriptures
• the King James Authorized Version of 1611
• 2. The second coming of Jesus Christ
• 3. The virgin birth
• (not the Immaculate Conception)
• 4. The physical resurrection of the body
• 5. The substitutionary atonement
• 6. The total depravity of man - original sin