Transcript The Origins of Progressivism

The Origins of
Progressivism
Vocab Words
 Progressive
 Florence
movement
Kelley
 Prohibition
 Muckraker
 Initiative
 Referendum
 17th
Amendment
Progressive movement – reform (change)
movement after the Gilded Age
 Protecting
social welfare
 Promoting
moral improvement
 Creating
economic reform
 Fostering
efficiency
Social Welfare – help people effected
by harsh conditions of industrialization
 Jane Adams settlement
ex. Bad housing
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Help the poor
through community
centers, church's
and social services
YMCA – opened
libraries, sponsored
classes and built
swimming pools
Salvation Army – fed
the poor in soup
kitchens, cared for
children in nurseries
house movement
 Adams Hull House in
Chicago – offered baths,
cheap food, child care,
job training, health care
to the poor
Promoting Moral Improvements – moral and
personal behavior needed changing to
improve the lives of people example alcohol abuse causing problems
Carrie Nation
 Women’s
Christian
Temperance Union
worked to end
alcohol
 Prohibition –
banning of alcohol
 18th Amendment –
outlawed alcohol
in the United States
Creating Economic Reform –
questioning of Capitalism & started the
Socialist Party in 1901
 Concerned
about the uneven balance among
big business, government, and ordinary people
 Movement
was not very popular but people saw
the point behind it
 Corruption
– big business got favorable
treatment from government officials and
politicians
Muckrakers – journalist who wrote about the
corrupt side of business and public life in mass
circulated magazines during the 20th century
 Ida
M Tarbell wrote
“History of the
Standard Oil
Company” (1904) –
revealed
Rockefeller’s ruthless
business practices
and called for the
break up of large
monopolies
 Upton
Sinclair’s “The
Jungle” (1906) –
revealed the unsanitary
conditions of
slaughterhouses & led to
government regulations
of the food industries
 Pure
Food & Drug Act –
passed 1906, banned
harmful products &
ended false medicine
claims
Fostering Efficiency – some reforms put their
faith in experts & scientific principles to
make society & the workplace better
 Henry
Ford – Ford Automotive cut work
day back to 8 hours a day and paid
employees $5 a day