1. Evaluate the loss of
Progressivism in the 1920s
through:
Regulation of Business
Labor Reform
Social Welfare for New Immigrants
Kara Schoch, Ashley Spraggins, Jill Mullen

2. General Info
 Reforms against  Corruption
corruption from  Big business
Gilded Age  Bootlegging
 Hull House for  Nativism/Cultural
Immigrants Pluralism

3. Thesis
Progressivism faded as the
government changed to laissez-faire,
business was corrupted, labor
protection ended, and the nation
feared immigration.

4. Progressive Business
 Movement to put the power in the
hands of the people & protect against
big business
 Teddy Roosevelt “Trust Buster”

5. Business
 Reinstalled Laissez-Faire
• Low taxes
• Small gov’t influence over economy
 Anti-Trust laws ignored
 Corruption
• “Ohio Gang”
• Teapot Dome Scandal

6. Labor
Progressive
 Muller vs. Oregon (’08)
• Justified special treatment for women
 Lewis Hine – National Child Labor
Committee
1920s
 Adkins vs. Children’s Hospital (’23)
• Labor equality for women

7. Progressive Immigration
 Cultural Pluralism vs. Assimilation
 “Americanization”
• Advertising campaigns
• Recreation (Coney Island)
• Emphasis on Cleanliness
 Social Welfare
• Hull House for immigrants

8. 1920s Immigration
 Immigration quotas
• Emergency quota (’21) – 3%
• Immigration quota (’24) – 2%
• Based on 1890 census
• Latin America & Canada – No restriction
• Japan – NO IMMIGRANTS
 Red Scare
• Fear of radicals & anarchists
 Nativism (KKK)