Progressivism
Camella Teoli
Progressivism- Four goals of Progressivism 1. 2. 3. 4.
Progressivism-return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life. Four goals of Progressivism 1. protecting social welfare 2. promoting moral improvement 3. creating economic reform 4. fostering efficiency
1. Protecting social welfare Meaning- Examples:
1. Protecting social welfare Meaning- reformers worked to improve the harsh conditions of industrialization Examples:
1. Protecting social welfare Meaning- reformers worked to improve the harsh conditions of industrialization. (long work hours, low pay, hazardous working conditions Examples:
1. Protecting social welfare Meaning- reformers worked to improve the harsh conditions of industrialization. (long work hours, low pay, hazardous working conditions Examples: YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association), settlement houses, Florence Kelley, Salvation Army
2.Promoting moral improvement Meaning- Examples:
2.Promoting moral improvement Meaning-Reformers wanted immigrants and poor city dwellers to improve their personal behavior Prohibition Examples:
2.Promoting moral improvement Meaning-Reformers wanted immigrants and poor city dwellers to improve their personal behavior. Prohibition Examples: WCTU (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union), Anti-Saloon League
Prohibition The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union started pushing local and state governments to forbid the sale or use of alcohol. The Anti-Saloon League took over and pushed for the ban of all alcohol nationwide 18th Amendment to the Constitution passed on January 16, 1919 21st Amendment passed in 1933, states made their own laws on alcohol
3. Creating Economic Reform Meaning-Reformers sought to change the American capitalist economic system. Examples:
3. Creating Economic Reform Meaning-Reformers sought to change the American capitalist economic system. Examples: Eugene V. Debs (socialism), muckrakers
4. Fostering Efficiency Meaning- Examples
4. Fostering Efficiency Meaning-Experts and scientific principles to make society and the workplace more efficient. Examples: Scientific management, assembly lines
Effects of Progressivism Forty hour work week, minimum wage, child labor laws, safe working conditions Alcohol sales/ use controlled by each state News services monitor the government and big business Scientific management and technology make our lives easier and better Constant voice for change
Model T Assembly Line Done by an 8th grader as a project for his school. It took him 3 months to complete.