1. Limits of Progressivism
Ch 13.3

2. Reformers Immigrants
 Factor that held down wages of
unskilled workers
 Difficulty fitting in
 Congress tried to pass literacy tests
 Fear of socialism
 Progressives thought immigrants would
bring in their ideals
 Tried to weaken immigrant political
power
 When reforming gov’t political
bosses system, wrecked voice of
immigrants

3. Reformers Immigration
 Education for assimilation
 Mandatory attendance
 US History course
 Taught patriotism

4. Progressives Race
 Most progressives were racist
 Did not object to segregation
of Japanese-Americans in
schools (San Fran 1906)
 Even as high as President
 T.R. Africans “as a race
inferior to whites”