1. Ms. Boden Edgren High School 11th US History October 4, 2007
Unit 3: Anticipatory-Set 3: Chapter 9, Sections 1 Urbanization and the Progressive Era
Ms. Boden
Edgren High School
11th US History
October 4, 2007

6. Unit 3: Lecture 3: Chapter 9, Sections 1 Progressive Reforms
Ms. Boden
Edgren High School
11th US History
October 4, 2007

7. I. The Progressive Movement
What was the
progressivism movement?
Focused on returning government control to the people and correct injustices in American society

10. II. The Goals of the Progressive Movement
Four Goals:
Protecting social welfare
Promoting moral reform
Creating economic reform
Fostering efficiency

11. III. Protecting Social Welfare
What type of reforms would apply to protecting social welfare during this time period?
Feeding the poor
Caring for children of immigrant workers
Educating immigrants
Labor issues (i.e. working hours and child labor)

12. III. Protecting Social Welfare
Florence Kelley:
Educated woman
Earned a graduate degree at the University of Zurich in Switzerland
Married in Switzerland, but later divorced with 3 small children
Moved to Chicago and was a resident at Hull House
Settlement houses inspired her to be a social reformer

13. III. Protecting Social Welfare
Kelley became an advocate for child labor laws
Became a lawyer and successfully argued against corrupt corporations’ labor practices
Won passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893:
Prohibited child labor
Limited women’s working hours

14. III. Protecting Social Welfare
National Child Labor Committee:
Organization to stop child labor
Gathered evidence of harsh conditions
Exposed the harsh treatment and low pay given to children laborers
Keating-Owen Act in 1916:
Goods made by children could not be transported across state boundaries (repealed)
Though, this act helped for other laws to be made on banning child labor

17. IV. Promoting Moral Reform
Prohibition
Frances Willard:
President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Largest women’s group in history
Promoted prohibition by going to saloons praying, singing, and urging to stop the selling of alcohol

19. V. Promoting Economic Reform
Muckrakers
Journalists who exposed corruption.
Theodore Roosevelt first used this label
Literary character from the book The Pilgrim’s Progress
Busy cleaning and raking up the muck and dirt that he didn't see the good things that were above his head.

20. V. Promoting Economic Reform
Upton Sinclair:
"The Jungle"
Detailed the lives of stockyard workers and the meat packing industry

21. V. Promoting Economic Reform
Jacob Riis:
"How The Other Half Lives"
A book of photographs about the wretched conditions in the cities and slums.

22. V. Promoting Economic Reform
Ida Tarbell:
"History of the Standard Oil Company" published in McClure's Magazine.
Described the firms cutthroat methods of eliminating competition

23. V. Promoting Economic Reform
Lincoln Stephens:
"The Shame of the Cities"
Link between big business and crooked politicians

26. VI. Fostering Efficiency
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Scientific management
To improve efficiency in the work place
Scientific principles
Results
Better productivity
More goods and services
Sparked the idea of the assembly line

27. III. Additional Government Reforms
Robert M. La Follette:
Governor of Wisconsin
Railroad reform
Taxed railroad property as other business property
Commission to regulate railroad rates
No more free passes to state officials

28. VII. Additional Government Reforms
Election Reforms
Secret Ballot:
Gave citizens’ power to create laws
Initiative:
Citizen could petition to introduce legislation
Referendum:
Citizens vote on the initiative
Recall:
The ability of citizens to remove an elected official
17th Amendment:
People elect U.S. senators not state legislatures