Progressivism

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Progressivism
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Progressive Movement

• An early-20th-century reform movement seeking to
  return control of the government to the people,
  to restore economic opportunities, and to correct
  injustices in American life.

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Progressive Goals

• 1 Protect social welfare
• 2 Promote moral improvement
• 3 Create economic reform
• 4 Foster efficiency

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Social Welfare

• Reform harsh conditions of industrialization
• Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA)
• Salvation Army
• Settlement Houses
• Florence Kelley
• Jane Addams
• Ellen Gates Starr

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Jane Addams

• Social Labor reformer
• Hull House 1889
• Helped hundreds of Chicago immigrants and others
  gain self-respect in society
• Nobel Peace Prize in 1931
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Promote Moral Improvement

• Prohibition banning of alcoholic beverages
• Drinking undermined american morals
• Womens Christian Temperance Union
• Advanced their cause by entering saloons,
  singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to
  stop selling alcohol

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Create Economic Reform

• Economic panic of 1893 caused some to question
  capitalistic system of the U.S.
• Focused on Big Business and Politics
• Muckrakers Journalists who wrote about the
  corrupt side of business and public life in mass
  circulation magazines during the early 20th
  century

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Foster Efficiency

• Many progressive leaders put their faith in
  experts and scientific principles to make society
  and the workplace more efficient.
• Scientific Management

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Political Reform
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Political Reform

• Local and state governments had to be cleaned up
• What needed to be addressed?
• Railroads
• Child Labor
• Elections
• 17th Amendment Adopted in 1913, that provides
  for the election of U.S. senators by the people
  rather than by state legislatures.
• As Americans became more involved in voting,
  womens suffrage found renewed attention.