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Progressive Movement

Progressive Movement. Warm Up Write down three things you would like to change about school. Write down three things you would like to change about your home or job. Progressive Movement. Goals: Protect social welfare Promote moral improvement Creating economic reform Fostering efficiency.

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Progressive Movement

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  1. Progressive Movement • Warm Up • Write down three things you would like to change about school. • Write down three things you would like to change about your home or job.

  2. Progressive Movement Goals: • Protect social welfare • Promote moral improvement • Creating economic reform • Fostering efficiency

  3. Social Welfare and Moral Improvement • YMCA, Salvation Army, Soup Kitchens • Florence Kelley Factory Inspections – Illinois factory Act • Mother (Mary Harris) Jones- Holds a children’s march • Women Christian Temperance Union-Prohibition, 18th Amendment • Cultural backlash

  4. Economic Reforms and fostering efficiency • American Socialist Party Founded • Muckraker Journalist write about problems • Assembly line- Ford Motor Company

  5. State Reform • Robert La Follete (WI- targeted railroad) and James Hogg(TX) lead reform as governors • National Child Labor Committee • Muller vs. Oregon – 10 hour work day • Recall • Initiative- vote initiated by voters • Referendum –vote on initiative • 17th Amendment vote and election of Senators

  6. Summary Questions • What is a vote on an initiative called? • This is a bill launched by the citizens? • This Constitutional Amendment called for citizens to vote on their senators. • This Governor and Senator from Wisconsin focused on reform of Railroads • This was a way that voters forced elected officials to face special elections before term of office was up. • What is the term used for journalist who exposed government and business abuses? • The Women's Christian Temperance Union fought for this. Which then lead to the 18th Amendment. • She lead Illinois as Chief Inspector of Factories and helped to create the Illinois Factory Act.

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