TLWBAT: Identify the Goals of the Progressive Movement

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TLWBAT Identify the Goals of the Progressive
Movement

• Bell work Do the preassessment
• Ohio Learning Standards AH 78
• CCCS 2a

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Four Goals of Progressivism

• Protecting Social Welfare
• Promoting Moral Reform
• Creating Economic Reform
• Fostering Efficiency

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Promoting Social Welfare

• Relieve Urban Problems
• YMCA
• Salvation Army
• Settlement Houses
• Child Labor

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Promoting Moral Reform

• Moral Reform to make poor peoples lives better
• Prohibition
• WCTU
• Anti-Saloon League

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Creating Economic Reform

• Questioned Capitalism
• Depended upon Muckrakers to expose monopolies and
  crimes against the consumer.

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Foster Efficiency

• Using scientific management to ensure efficiency
  in factories.
• Assembly Line

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What did they accomplish?
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Government Reforms

• Local
• City Managers
• City Commissions
• State
• Regulate companies (i.e. Railroads)
• Protect laborers
• Initiative, Referendum, Recall
• National
• 17th Amendment - Direct Election of Senators

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Changes for Women

• Women worked but only in non-skilled jobs
• Farms
• Domestic
• Industry

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Women in Reform

• Women became a driving force behind abolition.
• Then they began the fight for suffrage
• NAWSA
• Susan B. Anthony

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Square Deal

• Teddy Roosevelt the first Progressive
  president
• Used federal power to reform labor, business and
  government

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Big Business Attitude

• The rights and interests of the laboring men
  will be protected and cared for not by labor
  agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God,
  in his infinite wisdom, has given control of the
  property interests of this country.

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Trust Busting

• Teddy believed in good and bad trusts.
• What is the difference?
• His goal was to break the bad trusts, but to keep
  the good trusts why?
• His true goal federal regulation!

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Federal Regulation

• Through regulation rules and laws set by the
  government Teddy believed that he could protect
  citizens and the environment.
• Protecting health
• Meat Inspection Act
• Protecting consumers
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Protecting the environment
• National Parks and conservation efforts

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T.R.s Heir

• William Howard Taft
• Even though he busted more trusts than TR, Taft
  was seen as weaker.
• Lowering of tariffs was important to
  progressives, but Taft failed at that
• Taft allowed the sale of public lands that were
  to be conserved
• split of Republican party