1. Progressivism

2. Camella Teoli

3. Progressivism-
Four goals of Progressivism 1. 2. 3. 4.

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

5. 1. Protecting social welfare
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6. 1. Protecting social welfare
Meaning- reformers worked to improve the harsh conditions of industrialization
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7. 1. Protecting social welfare
Meaning- reformers worked to improve the harsh conditions of industrialization.
(long work hours, low pay, hazardous working conditions
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8. 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

9. 2.Promoting moral improvement
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10. 2.Promoting moral improvement
Meaning-Reformers wanted immigrants and poor city dwellers to improve their personal behavior
Prohibition
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11. 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

12. 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

13. 3. Creating Economic Reform
Meaning-Reformers sought to change the American capitalist economic system.
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14. 3. Creating Economic Reform
Meaning-Reformers sought to change the American capitalist economic system.
Examples: Eugene V. Debs (socialism), muckrakers

15. 4. Fostering Efficiency
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16. 4. Fostering Efficiency
Meaning-Experts and scientific principles to make society and the workplace more efficient.
Examples: Scientific management, assembly lines

17. 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

18. Model T Assembly Line
Done by an 8th grader as a project for his school. It took him 3 months to complete.