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The Origins of Progressivism

The Origins of Progressivism. Vocab Words. Progressive movement Florence Kelley Prohibition Muckraker Initiative Referendum 17 th Amendment. Progressive movement – reform (change) movement after the Gilded Age. Protecting social welfare Promoting moral improvement

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The Origins of Progressivism

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  1. The Origins of Progressivism

  2. Vocab Words • Progressive movement • Florence Kelley • Prohibition • Muckraker • Initiative • Referendum • 17th Amendment

  3. Progressive movement – reform (change) movement after the Gilded Age • Protecting social welfare • Promoting moral improvement • Creating economic reform • Fostering efficiency

  4. Social Welfare – help people effected by harsh conditions of industrialization ex. Bad housing • Help the poor through community centers, church's and social services • YMCA – opened libraries, sponsored classes and built swimming pools • Salvation Army – fed the poor in soup kitchens, cared for children in nurseries • Jane Adams settlement house movement • Adams Hull House in Chicago – offered baths, cheap food, child care, job training, health care to the poor

  5. Promoting Moral Improvements – moral and personal behavior needed changing to improve the lives of people example - alcohol abuse causing problems Carrie Nation • Women’s Christian Temperance Union worked to end alcohol • Prohibition – banning of alcohol • 18th Amendment – outlawed alcohol in the United States

  6. Creating Economic Reform – questioning of Capitalism & started the Socialist Party in 1901 • Concerned about the uneven balance among big business, government, and ordinary people • Movement was not very popular but people saw the point behind it • Corruption – big business got favorable treatment from government officials and politicians

  7. Muckrakers – journalist who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulated magazines during the 20th century • Ida M Tarbell wrote “History of the Standard Oil Company” (1904) – revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices and called for the break up of large monopolies

  8. Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (1906) – revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses & led to government regulations of the food industries • Pure Food & Drug Act – passed 1906, banned harmful products & ended false medicine claims

  9. Fostering Efficiency – some reforms put their faith in experts & scientific principles to make society & the workplace better • Henry Ford – Ford Automotive cut work day back to 8 hours a day and paid employees $5 a day

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