Transcript The Progressive Era

The Progressive Era
Part 1: Origins and Ideas
What was Progressivism?
Progressivism was a widespread belief
linking the idea of progress to the idea of
government-imposed reform.
Characteristics of the Progressive
Movement
• Diffuse and Diverse
• Elitist
• Tended toward Darwinism and Atheism
Origins of the Progressive
Movement
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species,
1859
Aspects of the Progressivism
Philosophy:
– William James
• Pragmatism
Aspects of the Progressivism
Education:
– John Dewey
• “Progressive Education”
Aspects of the Progressivism
Journalism:
“Muckraking”
– Lincoln Steffens
• The Shame of the Cities
– Ida Tarbell
• History of Standard Oil
Company
– Upton Sinclair
• The Jungle
• The Meat Inspection Act
and the Pure Food and
Drug Act (1906)
“I aimed at the public’s heart, and by
accident I hit it in the stomach.”
~Upton Sinclair
Aspects of the Progressivism
Religion:
“The Social Gospel”
• Walter
Rauschenbusch
Aspects of the Progressivism
Law:
Sociological Jurisprudence
• Louis Brandeis