The document summarizes various progressive reforms in the early 20th century including labor reforms like unions, strikes, and workplace safety laws. It also discusses city reforms to improve sanitation and eliminate slums. Moral reforms aimed at prohibiting alcohol are mentioned, though prohibition ultimately failed due to unenforceability and growth of organized crime. Reforms for racial equality are also outlined, including the founding of the NAACP to advance civil rights.

1. Progressivism Chapter 17

2. Labor Reform Unions Knights of Labor Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) American Federation of Labor (AFL) Strikes Riots Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire The Jungle by Upton Sinclair -meat packing industry. => Muckraker Muller v. Oregon

3. City Reform City Planning Eliminate Slums Clean up cities - Sanitation Will produce better citizens

4. Moral Reform Prohibition : 18th amendment: prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating beverages within the United States National prohibition of alcohol (1920-33)--the "noble experiment"--was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Women ’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU )

5. The Prohibition amendment of the 1920s was ineffective because it was unenforceable, it caused the explosive growth of crime, and it increased the amount of alcohol consumption. As a result of the money involved in the bootlegging industry, there was much rival between gangs. Crimes became very organized and intentional.

7. Prohibition Cartoons

8. Film Westerns The Great Train Robbery Steamy romances Sources of temptation Corrupting the youth 5th largest US industry 5-10 cents for a ticket Wanted Censorship The Great Train Robbery

9. Racial Reform African Americans W.E. DuBois Education Send African Americans back to Africa -moved to Ghana Joined Communist Party Founder of NAACP w/Jane Addams National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Urban League Racism continued

10. American Indian Society of American Indians