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The Progress ive Era

The Progress ive Era. Main Goals of Progressivism : ( How to fix American society ) Goal 1: Protect Social Welfare Goal 2: Promote Moral Improvements Goal 3: Create Economic Reform Goal 4: Fostering Efficiency. Goal 1: Social Welfare. Fix the workplace and living conditions

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The Progress ive Era

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  1. The Progressive Era • Main Goals of Progressivism: (How to fix American society) • Goal 1: Protect Social Welfare • Goal 2: Promote Moral Improvements • Goal 3: Create Economic Reform • Goal 4: Fostering Efficiency

  2. Goal 1: Social Welfare • Fix the workplace and living conditions • Social Gospel and Settlement Movement • Jane Addams and others inspire new ideas • YMCA- Young Men’s Christian Association • Funded libraries, classes • Built swimming pools & Handball courts • Salvation Army • Fed poor people • Cared for children • Florence Kelley- • Helped win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893 • Prohibited child labor

  3. Salvation Army

  4. Jane Addams Hull House

  5. Goal 2: Promote Moral Improvements • Fix the way people act and live (Morals) • Want immigrants and city dwellers to fix their lives • WCTU- Woman’s Christian Temperance Movement • Prohibition- ban alcohol (18th Amendment) • Carrie Nation went into saloons; would sing, pray, beak bottles • Provide education for immigrants

  6. Goal 3: Create Economic Reform • Fix Economy  People think capitalism is wrong  big business & Gov’t to wealthy • Eugene Debs forms the American Socialist Party • Muckrakers begin to write about corruption in big business & Politics • Ida Tarbell – “History of the Standard Oil Company” • Exposed cutthroat methods of Standard Oil Co. • Upton Sinclair- “The Jungle” • Exposed the problems in the Meat Packing Plants • Lincoln Steffens- The Shame of the Cities • Exposed the problems with corruption in politics in Cities

  7. Goal 4: Fostering Efficiency • Make work and life more efficient well run, better • Henry Ford • Invents and maximizes the ASSEMBLY LINE • He pays his workers $5 a day • Introduced five, eight hour work days • Keeps employees HAPPY • Invents the MODEL T

  8. “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” Henry Ford The famous Model T Assembly Line

  9. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM • ECONOMIC • Teddy Roosevelt introduces Square Deal • Helped out common man, gov’t protects people not business  FDA, USDA, No Child Labor • New Tax System is instituted (16th Amendment) • Graduated income tax • Roosevelt Breaks up Trust (Trust Buster) • Clayton Antitrust Act

  10. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM • POLITICAL • Elections are reformed • Direct Elections of Senators (17th Amendment) • Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Direct Primary • Women get the right to vote 19th Amendment

  11. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM • HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT • Conservationists establish wilderness conservation areas and preserve natural resources • National parks form • Yellow Stone National Park • Pure Food and Drug Act • Protects consumers-

  12. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM • SOCIAL & MORAL • Women fight for right to vote- 19th • Prohibition- 18th Amendment bans alcohol • Social Services- • YMCA • SALVATION ARMY

  13. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM • INDUSTRY • National Child Labor Committee organized to end child labor children go to school • Reformers improve working conditions • 8 hour workday • Safe, clean environment • Fire code- can’t lock doors, windows, new fire escape, more than 1 exit, etc

  14. Directions: Become a MuckrakerThink about how Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair made you feel when you read “How the Other half Lives” and “The Jungle.” Now pick a problem that you feel strongly about and that you think the government or harding university should take action upon.Write a persuasively, descriptive letter or essay on your problem. Again think about how both authors made you feel when you read their stories

  15. Complete the following • (17-1) The Origins of Progressivism

  16. The Rose That Grew From Concrete Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet. Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.

  17. 1. what did the rose represent in Tupac’s poem? • 2. Who was the progressive that we talked about when you 1st came into class? What did he expose? • List 3 of the reforms progressives were involved in?

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