The Progressives

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The Progressives

• Who were the Progressives?
• Intellectuals and reformers committed to social
  change
• Four Goals of the Progressive Movement
• Protecting social welfare
• Promoting moral improvement
• Creating economic reform
• Fostering efficiency

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Protecting Social Welfare

• Social Gospel
• Jane Addams and Hull House
• F. Kelley Chief Inspector of IL. Factories won
  the prohibition of child labor in IL
• Establishment of the YWCA
• Opened libraries and recreation centers

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Promoting Moral Reform

• Morality held the key to improving life
• Temperance moderation of alcohol
• Prohibition Total banning of all alcohol
• WCTU Womens Christian Temperance Union
• Largest womens group in history at that time
  245,000
• Women told to do everything and help promote
  morality in prisons, mental institutions and with
  immigrants
• Pushed to gain women right to vote
• Anti-Saloon League
• Carry Nation

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Creating Economic Reform

• Organized socialist party
• Eugene V. Debs
• Uneven balance amongst government, business and
  ordinary people
• Muckrakers
• Journalists who wrote about corruption

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Fostering Efficiency

• Making society more efficient
• Scientific Management
• Developed under Frederick Winslow Taylor
• He applied scientific principles to the work
  place
• Most known for his time studies

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How did these Progressives Change Society?

• Reformed local and state governments
• New commissions for cities
• Lowering fares for public transportation
• New schools and parks
• Work relief for unemployed
• End of child labor
• Limiting working hours
• Reforming elections Direct election of Senators