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Welcome!. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute December 6, 2010 U.S. History Mr. Green. Agenda/Topics To Be Covered. The students will explain progressivism by summarizing the progressive efforts to clean up local government. Hand-in: Missing work from last week

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  1. Welcome! Baltimore Polytechnic Institute December 6, 2010 U.S. History Mr. Green

  2. Agenda/Topics To Be Covered The students will explain progressivism by summarizing the progressive efforts to clean up local government. Hand-in: Missing work from last week Warm-up Question: Examine the photo on page 335 and answer the following questions. 1. What is the age group of these factory workers? How are they dressed? 2. What details do you notice about the factory and the machinery?

  3. The Origins of Progressivism Ch. 9 Sec. 1 pgs. 330-336 Four Goals of Progressivism 1. Protecting social welfare 2. Promoting moral improvement 3. Creating economic reform 4. Fostering efficiency Protecting Social Welfare Settlement houses/Social Gospel movement began the trend YMCA/Salvation Army Florence Kelly-helped pass Illinois Factory Act that banned child labor in 1893

  4. Promoting Moral Reform Morality reform the key to improving the lives of poor people. Prohibition Woman’s Christian Temperance Union-would enter saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol Frances Willard-transformed the WCTU in a national organization members worked from suffrage, started kindergartens, visited inmates in prisons and asylums Anti-Saloon league angered immigrant groups that included alcohol in their customs/traditions attacked saloons single-issue interest group

  5. Creating Economic Reform As a result of the Panic of 1893, many questioned the capitalist system and laissez-faire Some workers embraced socialism led by Eugene V. Debs Big Business received favorable treatment from government officials and politicians Journalists that exposed the corrupt side of business and public life were known as muckrakers

  6. Fostering Efficiency Scientific management-Frederick Winslow Taylor apply scientific principles to make tasks simpler and easier What would be the outcome of these principles on production? Problem is some work harder/faster than others Henry Ford used an assembly line for steady speed Workers quit in exhaustion or injured in accidents Ford introduced the $5/day and 8 hour/day workers exhausted themselves

  7. Exit Ticket Draw this web on your paper. Fill it in with examples of political organizations or professional groups that campaigned for the reforms show. Moral Economic Progressive Reforms Efficiency Social Welfare

  8. Homework • Chapter 9 Vocabulary due on Friday • Read Chapter 9 Section 1 pages 333-336

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