Ideas for Reform

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Ideas for Reform
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Controlling Immigration and Behavior

• Many immigrants labeled as criminals
• Nativism favoring native-born Americans over
  immigrants Chinese Exclusion Act
• American Protective Association teaching of
  American culture and English language in schools
• Contract Labor Act allowed employers to recruit
  immigrants REPEALED!
• Immigration Restriction League (Harvard Grads)
  targeted southern and eastern European immigrants

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Prohibition

• Temperance Movement campaign to eliminate
  alcohol consumption
• Prohibition Party
• Womans Christian Temperance Movement
• Anti-Saloon League
• Prohibition ban on the manufacture and sale of
  alcoholic beverages

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Purity Crusaders

• Vice immoral or corrupt behavior (Gambling,
  drugs, prostitution)
• Anthony Comstock crusader who backed a law
  prohibiting the distribution of obscene materials
  through the mail
• Example Birth Control Information
• Crusaders also attacked political machines
  because they profited from vice

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Helping the Needy

• Charity Organization Movement Josephine Shaw
  Lowell formed to help the needy conform to
  American ideals
• Social Gospel Movement urban churches provided
  services to the poor around them
• Sought to apply the gospel to conditions around
  them

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Settlement Movement

• Men and women move into a house, in the midst of
  a poor neighborhood and apply hands on help
• Witnessed the effects of poverty first-hand
• 1889 Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star bought the
  Hull House in Chicago
• Provided community service, education, cultural
  events, childcare, playgrounds, etc
• By 1910 there were over 400 settlement houses
  nationwide

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Jane Addams and Hull House