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Social Reform/Progressive Era

During the Progressive Era, the focus was on social reform and addressing issues within capitalism. Efforts to promote fair competition led to initiatives aimed at disbanding monopolies and trusts, with figures like Eugene Debs playing significant roles in advocating for change.

Social Reform/Progressive Era

Social Reform/Progressive Era

Colonialism

"White Man's Burden"
Cuba, Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico

Annexation of Hawaii

American Missionaries

Spanish American War, 1898

Settlement Houses

Jane Adams/Hull House, Chicago
Provided education, orientation to soceity
Alternatives to urban vices
Create a homogeneous society
Urban/Immigrant neighborhoods

Ethnic/Working-Class Groups

Assimilation
Modern Olympics

Body Culture

Technology

Rise of African American Leagues

Jack Johnson

Isaac Murphy

Marshall Taylor

Negro Leagues

Native Americans

Jim Thorpe

Carlisle Indian School

Social Mobility
Boxing: urban youth, freed slaves
Ethnic sporting leagues

Professional baseball leagues

German Turners

Three tiered approach
Physical Education

Trained physical education leaders

Playground Association of America (PAA)

Parks

Back to Nature Movement

Country Clubs

G. Stanley Hall

Luther Gulick

John Dewey= learn by doing

Supervised game taught deference to authority

Baseball, football, basketball, etc...

Football's violence

Masculine/Fittest Survive

Springfield , MA

Muscular Christianity

Taught basic aspects of democracy

Ingrained tenants of capitalism

Education

Taught reading/Removed children from labor

Humanitarian

Fair Competition within Capitalism

Disband monopolies
Enact an income tax on affluent
Dissolve Trusts
Eugene Debs
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Anarchist/Socialist?
Muckrackers