Progressivism

Henry Cabot Lodge

Spokesperson for Nativists in Congress

Urban Churches and Federal Council of the Churches of Christ

Lead the Social Gospel Movement

Goal of the Charity Organization Movement (COS)

Help the “worthy” poor

Gave speeches against drinking alcohol

Prohibitionists

A.A. Hopkins

Lead the Prohibition movement

Settlement House movement leaders did this

Experienced city living first-hand so they could better understand the problems

Charity Organization Movement (COS)

Kept records of the poor they aided so as not to waste effort on “undeserving” people

Purity Crusaders aimed to do this

Rid cities of vice and immoral activities (gambling, drugs, prostitution, police bribing)

Josephine Lowell

Founder of Charity Organization Movement (COS)

Beliefs of Prohibitionists

Alcohol was the cause of all social and city problems, so it should be limited

Chinese Exclusion Act

A victory for Nativists

Settlement House movement established this

Hull House, which aided immigrants and helped them assimilate

Purity Crusaders pushed for this

Passage of the Comstock Law

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr

Lead the Settlement House movement

Beliefs of Nativism movement

Immigrants were the cause of period problems, so quotas should be established

Strategy example for Purity Crusaders

New York Society for the Suppression of Vice

Purity Crusaders attacked and tried to destroy these

Political Machines

Beliefs of Social Gospel Movement

Teaching the poor about Christ would help solve their problems

Prohibitionists did this in saloons

Gave speeches and often preached

Methods of the Charity Organization Movement (COS) had this effect

Seemed to interfere with the lives of immigrants even though they tried to help

Cities

Main focus of early reform groups