Social Reform/Progressive Era
Fair Competition within Capitalism
Muckrackers
Eugene Debs
Anarchist/Socialist?
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Dissolve Trusts
Enact an income tax on affluent
Disband monopolies
Ethnic/Working-Class Groups
Three tiered approach
Humanitarian
Education
Taught reading/Removed children from labor
Physical Education
Trained physical education leaders
Baseball, football, basketball, etc...
Ingrained tenants of capitalism
Taught basic aspects of democracy
Springfield , MA
Muscular Christianity
Football's violence
Masculine/Fittest Survive
Supervised game taught deference to authority
Playground Association of America (PAA)
Luther Gulick
John Dewey= learn by doing
G. Stanley Hall
Parks
Country Clubs
Back to Nature Movement
Social Mobility
Ethnic sporting leagues
German Turners
Professional baseball leagues
Boxing: urban youth, freed slaves
Assimilation
Native Americans
Jim Thorpe
Carlisle Indian School
Rise of African American Leagues
Negro Leagues
Marshall Taylor
Isaac Murphy
Jack Johnson
Modern Olympics
Technology
Body Culture
Settlement Houses
Urban/Immigrant neighborhoods
Create a homogeneous society
Provided education, orientation to soceity
Alternatives to urban vices
Jane Adams/Hull House, Chicago
Colonialism
"White Man's Burden"
Spanish American War, 1898
Cuba, Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico
Annexation of Hawaii
American Missionaries