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Progressive Movement

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Progressive Movement. PROGRESSIVES – groups of reformers who worked to get the GOVERNMENT to improve social and political problems TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT – the movement to limit the use of liquor The DISPENSARY was set up in SC to control the amount of liquor being sold in the state

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  1. Progressive Movement

  2. PROGRESSIVES – groups of reformers who worked to get the GOVERNMENT to improve social and political problems • TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT – the movement to limit the use of liquor • The DISPENSARY was set up in SC to control the amount of liquor being sold in the state • PROHIBITION – the illegalization of the sale, production, and consumption of alcohol • Almost all SC counties were “dry” by 1903 In 1919 the 18th Amendment enacted Prohibition in the US (The 21st Amendment in 1933 repealed it)

  3. Robert Cooper and Richard Manning, III – South Carolina’s most Progressive governors

  4. SUFFRAGE – the right to vote • 19th Amendment (1920) – gave women the right to vote • Women’s suffrage was the LEAST supported progressive reform in SC

  5. World War One • The US declared NEAUTRALITY at the beginning of the war

  6. THE ROARING TWENTIES • World War I brought a time great PROSPRERITY during the 1920’s • Social improvement in the 1920’s WATER and SANITATION systems were set up in many towns ELECTRICITY became more common in towns and cities which gave rise to new APPLIANCES Cars, Vacuum cleaners and washing machines could be bought on the INSTALLMENT PLAN

  7. TOURISM became popular along the coast because of the increased number of automobiles. • Prohibition failed as it led to an increase in crime. BOOTLEGGERS and MOONSHINERS violated the law • Many people felt that morals were declining • BLUE LAWS were set up to prohibit business being done on Sunday • The KKK targetted immoral bootleggers and immigrants who continued to drink

  8. MASS MEDIA (the radio and movies) enabled SC to learn about the changing culture in America such as the newest dances and music (JAZZ) This led to shared national culture. • The CHARLESTON and the BIG APPLE were two popular dances of the 1920’s with SC roots. • The SOUTHERN LITERARY RENAISSANCE celebrated Southern heritage as poets and writers wrote about Southern themes (ex. PORGY)

  9. The HARLEM RENAISSANCE exalted the culture of African-Americans through the spread of art forms created by black artists (ex. WILLIAM H. JOHNSON of Florence, SC) SC farmers faced economic hard times in the 1920’s because without a war there was decreased demand for crops. (also the boll weevil continued its destruction) • Textile mills suffered because the new clothing styles used less cloth, NYLON became the cloth of choice, instead of cottonand there was too much foreign COMPETITION