1. PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN AMERICA
PROGRESSIVE ERA
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN
AMERICA

2. FOUR GOALS OF PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
Protect Social Welfare
Promote Moral Improvement
Create Economic Reform
Foster Efficiency

3. Protect the Social Welfare: URBAN POOR
SOLUTIONS:
Social Gospel Movement
Salvation through service to the poor
Building Codes
Settlement Houses
Jane Addams – Hull House in Chicago
YMCA
Salvation Army

4. Moral Improvement: ALCOHOL ABUSE
SOLUTIONS
Woman’s Christian Temperance Movement 1874
Anti-Salon League
1920 – 18th Amendment
Moral Reform By Law

5. Create Economic Reform: CHILD LABOR
SOLUTIONS
1902 – National Child Labor Committee
1916 Keating-Owens Act
1920s – Beginning of compulsory education laws
1938 – Child Labor ends

6. Create Economic Reform/Foster Efficiency: LABOR ABUSES
PROBLEMS
Wages: Men – 68c/$498 per year
Women – 36c/$267
Children – 27c/$196 March 1911 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire
SOLUTIONS
Eugene Debs – unions/socialism
Safety Laws
Less hours/more money

7. WOMEN’S RIGHTS SOLUTIONS 1848 – Seneca Falls 1850s
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1850s
Susan B. Anthony
1890 – National American Woman Suffrage Association
(NAWSA)
1920 – 19th Amendment