HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Juvenile Court, Atlanta Exposition Speech, Jane Addams
14 Mar 2016
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Various aspects of multi-faceted progressive era: domestic, foreign, blurred boundaries. More efforts of non-state actors to improve american society and culture. Some then moved into realism of formal politics: populists, us missionaries. Rhetoric of uplift: settlement house movement, african american activism, socialism and iww. Idea of uplift: a lot of progressives thought what they were doing were uplifting the people, nations, and level of services, equality in the role of the world. Non-state actors: people who played an important role in shaping the nation that aren"t necessarily politicians with public jobs/federal agents, not involved with the state. Movement founded in england, came to us in mid-1880s. Aimed to help poor immigrants assimilate into american culture. Acted as advocates for social and later political reform. House, not an office: mostly run by middle class, educated women, sometimes with their own money, but sometimes philanthropic. Goal: help poor immigrants assimilate into american culture, meet needs of the poor.
