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Goal 7

Goal 7. The Progressive Movement ( 1890-1914 ) The learner will analyze the economic, political, and social reforms of the Progressive Period . Generalizations: Innovation designed to solve problems may result in the creation of new problems.

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Goal 7

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  1. Goal 7 • The Progressive Movement (1890-1914) • The learner will analyze the economic, political, and social reforms of the Progressive Period. • Generalizations: • Innovation designed to solve problems may result in the creation of new problems. • Coordinated action by groups or individuals may result in economic, political, and social changes to a nation. • The perceptions and actions of individuals can be influenced by the economic priorities of a nation.

  2. Urban Reform During the Progressive Era (1890-1920) • From1890to1920,reformers tried to clean up problems (“progress”) created during the Gilded Age: • Cities were plagued by slums, crime, disease, tenements • City, state, & national gov’ts were seen as corrupt & unresponsive to the needs of Americans • Corporate monopolies limited competition & workers’ wages

  3. The Social Gospel Movement • In the 1880s, many middle-class Protestant Christians embraced the Social Gospelmovement: • To honor God, people must put aside their own desires & helpother people, especially the poor • These ideas helped inspire Progressive reform in U.S. cities

  4. Urban Progressive Reformers • One of the earliest progressive reforms was the settlement house movement led by Jane Addams • Addams’ Hull House in Chicago offered baths, cheap food, child care, job training, health care to poor citizens in the slums • Her efforts inspired reformers in other cities to build settlement houses to assist the poor

  5. Urban Slums

  6. Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago

  7. Urban Progressive Reformers • Urban reformers tried to improve the lives of poor workers & children • YMCA created libraries & gyms for young men & children • The Salvation Army created soup kitchens & nurseries • Florence Kelley fought to create child labor laws & laws limiting work hours for women

  8. Urban Progressive Reformers • Many reformers saw alcohol abuse as serious urban problem: • Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) worked to end alcohol consumption • Reformers gained prohibition lawsin most states & outlawed alcohol throughout the USA with the 18thAmendment in 1919 • Hoped prohibition would end corruption, domestic violence, & help “Americanize” immigrants

  9. Carrie Nation Frances Willard

  10. Prohibition of alcohol in the states prior to 1920

  11. Muckrakers • In addition to the Social Gospel, progressive reformers were aided by a new, investigative journalism: • Muckrakers were journalists who exposed problems like poverty, corruption, monopolization (“Investigate,Educate,Legislate”) • Popular monthly magazines, like McClure’s & Colliers,used investigativejournalism&photos

  12. What did Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives(1890) expose? Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives(1890) exposed urban poverty & life in the slums

  13. What did Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) expose? Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices & called for the break-up of large monopolies

  14. What did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) expose? Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses & led to gov’t regulation of food industries

  15. Conclusions • The Progressive movement began asanattempttofixurbanproblems • Reformers lacked unity & were dedicated to their own causes • Buttheireffortsledtoashift:gov’t began to take responsibility for citizens & intervene in their lives

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