1. Ch.17 Sect.1:Progressivism

2. 4 goals of Progressivism
Journalists and writers…
Intellectuals…
Progressive Movement—
4 goals:
Protect social welfare
Promote moral imp.
Create econ. reform
Foster efficiency

3. Promoting Social Welfare
Worked to soften some harsh conditions of…
Social Gospel/settlement house movements continued
YMCA
Salvation Army
Florence Kelley

4. Moral Improvement Wanted immigrants/poor to improve… Prohibition WCTU
Frances Willard
WCTU opened Kindergartens, visited inmates in prison
Anti-Saloon League

5. Economic Reform Severe panic in 1893 Socialism, why?
Big business often got favorable treatment from…
Muckrakers—

7. Efficiency Faith put in experts and scientific principles
Brandeis brief
Taylorism
Scientific management
Assembly lines
Henry Ford

8. Reform at the State Level
Robert La Follette—
His major target was the railroads
Reformers worked to protect workers and end…
Children were more prone to accidents
National Child Labor Committee
Keating-Owen Act

9. La Follette

10. Efforts to Limit Working Hours
Bunting v. Oregon
Initiative—
Referendum—
Recall—
17th Amendment—

11. Ch.17 Sect.5: Wilson’s New Freedom

12. Wilson Wins Financial Reforms
Spent his youth in South during War and Reconstruction
Was a lawyer and president of Princeton U.
1910, Governor of NJ
New Freedom
Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 (No monopolies)
Strikes became legal!
Magna Carta for labor
FTC (watchdog)

13. A New Tax System Worked to lower tariff rates
State of the Union in person
Wilson v. lobbyists
16th Amendment (income tax)
Who was taxed more?
Federal Reserve Act
12 districts/banks
Federal Reserve System

14. Limits of Progressivism
Was Wilson a champion of social reform?
Wilson opposed antilynching legislation
Appointed white Southerners who extended segregation
How did NAACP feel?
The Twilight of Progressivism