Focus: Video and discuss

1. 10-9 Obj: To explain the four goals of progressivism and the efforts to clean up gov’t, protect workers, and reform elections. Focus: Video and discuss

2. The Origins of Progressivism Chapter 17 Section 1 pages 494 - 500

3. Terms & Names progressive movement Florence Kelley prohibition muckraker Scientific management Robert M. LaFollette initiative referendum recall 17th Amendment

4. What was the Progressive Movement? • Aimed to • return control of the government to the people • restore economic opportunities • correct injustices in American life

5. Who were the Progressives? • Middle class city dwellers • Writers • Teachers • Scholars

6. The Four Goals of Progressivism • Protecting Social Welfare • Promoting Moral Reform • Creating Economic Reform • Fostering Efficiency

7. Your turn… • Create a concept web to identify the four goals of Progressivism. Then, identify ways in which progressive reformers protected and improved the quality of life under each heading.

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9. Protecting Social Welfare • Wanted to relieve urban problems • YMCA • Opened libraries • Sponsored classes • Built swimming pools • The Salvation Army • Fed poor people in soup kitchens • Cared for children in nurseries • Slum brigades

10. Florence Kelley • Lived in Jane Addams’ Hull House • Became an advocate for improving the lives of women and children • Appointed chief inspector of factories for Illinois • Won passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893 • Prohibited child labor • Limited women’s working hours

11. Promoting Moral Reform • Morality held the key to improving the lives of poor people • Prohibition – the banning of alcoholic beverages

12. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union • 1873 • Supported Prohibition • Went into saloons praying and singing and asking saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol • Frances Willard • 1879 • Transformed the WCTU into a national organization Opened kindergartens Visited inmates in prison & in asylums Worked for suffrage (women’s right to vote)

13. Anti – Saloon League • 1895 • Attacked saloons that played a major part of some immigrants’ culture • Concentrated on closing saloons

14. Creating Economic Reform • Severe economic panic in 1893 • People began to question the economic system • Henry George & Edward Bellamy • Critics of the Laissez – faire theory

15. Eugene Debs • Embraced Socialism • Organized the American Socialist Party • Muckrakers • Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business • Ida Tarbell • Described the cutthroat methods of eliminating competition

16. Fostering Efficiency • Tried to increase the efficiency of American society • Frederick Winslow Taylor • Scientific management, the effort to improve efficiency in the work place by applying scientific principles to make tasks easier and simpler. • Workers became more productive • Goods and services increased

17. Henry Ford • Used an assembly line in his factories • Decreased the work day to 8 hours • Increased productivity

18. Closure… What are the four goals of progressivism? What two organizations helped the social welfare of the people? Which groups promoted prohibition? How did Henry Ford foster efficiency in his factory? Who supported economic reform?