1. Progressivism

2. What is progress?

3. *What does it mean to be progressive?

4. *Four Goal of Progressivism:
Protect social welfare
Promote moral improvement
Create economic reform
Foster efficiency

5. Problems at the turn of the Century:
Low wages, long working hours
Unsafe working conditions
Poor housing options, homelessness
Tired, injured workers
Alcoholism & domestic violence
Lack of education
Corruption- business & government
Monopolies
Slow factory production

6. *Prohibition Banning of alcoholic beverages
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Entered saloons singing & praying, pressured them to close
By the LARGEST women’s organization
Anti-Saloon League
Difficult in cities because immigrants depended on saloons
Cultural consumption of alcohol
Popular West & South
Carry Nation
Entered saloons with a hatchet to destroy liquor bottles

10. Success for the movement?
18th Amendment (1919)
Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
Did it work? Did it last?

11. Let’s connect it to today…
1. Start by answering the questions at the top of the page.
2. Background information– “Soda Ban Explained” video
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3. Read your assigned article…
If your desk has an odd numbered sticker, you read article #1
If your desk has an even numbered sticker, you read article #2
Answer questions that accompany that section.
4. Group Discussion
You must contribute to the discussion constructively at least two times.