1. Origins of Progressivism
What were the goals of Progressivism?

2. The Progressive Movement
1890s: Americans looking for change
“Muckrakers” (Journalists) & Intellectuals questioned the domination of corporations
Four Goals of Progressivism - #1Promoting Social Welfare
Social Gospel Movement & Settlement Houses help the poor
2. YMCA: opened libraries, sponsored education
3. Salvation Army: fed the poor in soup kitchens, cared for children, sponsored “slum brigades”
4. Florence Kelly becomes a well known advocate to push govt to change things, improve labor condition, stop child labor

3. Goal #2 Promoting Moral Improvement
Prohibition Movement says “Alcohol is undermining American Morals!”
Women’s Christian Temperance Movement used peaceful & violent means to end alcohol use
Anti-Saloon League began endorsing politicians who favored prohibition of alcohol
Carry Nation

4. Goal #3 Creating Economic Reform
Muckrakers: exposed business corruption, esp. Captains of Industry (Robber Barons)
American Socialist Party forms (1901)
Formed by labor leader Eugene V. Debs
Argued that big business is favored by government and hurts the workers!

5. Goal #4 Businesses Become Efficient
1. Use science & economics to make business run more efficiently
2. Focus on workweek/hours
3. Increase productivity: Henry Ford introduces the automobile assembly line

6. Reforming Government
City government – use a manager to run day to day city operations
Elect reform Mayors – those w/ progressive ideas
Elect reform Governors – Robert La Follette of Wisconsin & James Hogg of Texas go after big businesses (regulation)
Protect Children – new laws limiting child labor
Working Hours – Supreme court sides with workers, limits the work day to 10 hours
Reform elections
A) Ballot initiative & referendum – allow voters to place bills on the ballot to be voted on
B) Recall – give voters ability to remove bad leaders
C) 17th Amendment Direct election of Senators (takes vote away from State Legislature and gives it to the people)

7. Women’s Rights
Only one in five women had a job in the 1890s
Typical female jobs:
Office worker – filing, secretarial
Nurse
School teacher (K-8)
Telephone Operator
Maid, cook, seamstress (esp. African Americans)
Women want suffrage (right to vote)

8. Plan for Women’s Suffrage
Convince individual states to allow women to vote
Already in Wyoming,
Utah, Colorado & Idaho
Challenge laws in court
14th Amend says citizens have equal rights
15th Amend says all citizens can vote
Aren’t women citizens?
Push for a Constitutional
Amendment

9. What did Stanton write at the Seneca Falls convention?
Two of the leading suffragettes are Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Seneca Falls Convention) & Susan B. Anthony
What did Stanton write at the Seneca Falls convention?
What did she found in 1888?
How was she honored by the US?
How did Anthony feel about slavery?
What did she fight for after 1851?
How was she honored by the US?