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Origins of Progressivism. What were the goals of Progressivism?. The Progressive Movement. Social Gospel Movement & Settlement Houses help the poor . 2. YMCA: opened libraries, sponsored education. Goal #1 Promote Social Welfare.
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Origins of Progressivism What were the goals of Progressivism?
The Progressive Movement • Social Gospel Movement & Settlement Houses help the poor 2. YMCA: opened libraries, sponsored education Goal #1 Promote Social Welfare 3. Salvation Army: fed the poor in soup kitchens, slum brigades 4. Florence Kelly becomes a well known advocate for change
Goal #2 Promote Moral Improvement • Prohibition Movement “Alcohol is undermining American Morals!” • Women’s Christian Temperance Movement used peaceful & violent means to end alcohol use • Anti-Saloon League began endorsing politicians who favored prohibition of alcohol
Goal #3 Create Economic Reform • Muckrakers were journalists who exposed corruption, esp. big business (Robber Barons) • American Socialist Party (1901) • Formed by labor leader Eugene V. Debs • Argued that big business is favored by both parties and hurts the workers!
Goal #4 Businesses Become Efficient 1. Use science & economics to make business run more efficiently 2. Focus on workweek/hours 3. Increase productivity: Henry Ford introduces the automobile assembly line
Goal # 5 Reform Government • Local: use a manager to run day to day city operations, elect progressive mayors & city councils • State: elect reform Governors like Robert La Follette of Wisconsin & James Hogg of Texas who want bus. regulation • Federal: new laws limiting child labor, limits work day to 10hrs • Reform ALL elections • A) Ballot initiative & referendum (propositions), power to recall bad leaders • B) 17th Amendment: Direct election of Senators (people vote instead of state legislature)
Women’s Rights • Only one in five women had a job in the 1890s, typical jobs: • Office worker – filing, secretarial • Nurse • School teacher (K-8) • Telephone Operator • Maid, cook, seamstress (esp. African Americans) • Women want suffrage (right to vote) – meet at Seneca Falls Convention (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony)
Plan for Women’s Suffrage • Convince individual states to allow women to vote • Already in Wyoming, • Utah,Colorado & Idaho • Challenge laws in court • 14th Amend says citizens have equal rights • 15th Amend says all citizens can vote • Aren’t women citizens? • Push for a Constitutional • Amendment
Two of the leading suffragettes are Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Seneca Falls Convention) & Susan B. Anthony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXNQPb6bzT4&feature=related • What did Stanton write at the Seneca Falls convention? • What did she found in 1888? • How was she honored by the US? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtDPZudU0ek • How did Anthony feel about slavery? • What did she fight for after 1854? • How was she honored by the US?