1. Chapter 18:The Progressive Reform Era
Section 1: The Origins of Progressivism

2. Objective:
Assess the need for reform during the turn of the 20th century.
Did the means of reform provide adequate “progress” for serving the needs of the day?

3. Things to Consider What were the key goals of Progressivism?
How did the ideas of progressive writers help to inspire new reform movements?
What reform organizations and what women reformers took up Progressive causes?
Why did Progressive reforms meet with resistance?

4. The Jungle
“It seemed they must have agencies all over the country, to hunt out old and crippled and diseased cattle with had been fed on ‘whisky-malt’, the refuse of the breweries, and had become what the men called ‘steerly’—which means covered with boils…It was stuff such as this made the ‘embalmed beef’ that had killed several times as many United States soldiers as all the bullets of the Spaniards [in the Spanish-American War].”

5. The Progressive Era: Roots of Reform
_______ and _______ Farmers
________: political party from the 1890s who wanted to increase the amount of currency in circulation and promote economic reforms
________, prohibition, purity crusades, electoral reform, charity reform, social gospel philosophy, and settlement houses
Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast

6. Reform Reacts. . . Issues of Reform
____________: Growing cities with growing problems.
Issues of Reform
______________: Brought Prosperity, but at what cost?
__________: Seeking a better life, but what did they really find?

7. The Progressives: Goals and Beliefs
Four Goals Categories
_____, Moral, ________, and Political
Spanned all the _______
Most followers had ________ wealth and held 4 common beliefs (pg. 615)
1. Gov’t should be more ___________ to citizens
2. Gov’t should ______ ______ and influence of _______ interests
3. Gov’t should be given expanded ______ to that it could become more ______ in improving the lives of its citizens
4. Gov’ts should become more _______ and less _______ so that they could competently handle an expanded role

8. “__________”
_________ who played a key role in alerting the public of wrongdoing
Upton Sinclair
TR Takes Action
"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in."

9. Reform Organizations…
The _____ Movement
Unions were being _________ by employers
Used ____________ to limit unions
Unions continued to battle through individual bargaining
_________: court order to prohibit certain activities

10. Socialists
_______: an economic and political philosophy favoring public or _________ control of property and income
Used the ______ to attempt Change
Most Progressives were ________
Free the gov’t of _________, not restructure it completely

11. Women’s Groups
Women’s organizations formed around nearly _________ issue
The National ____________ League (NCL)
___________ how goods were made and sold
Enforced ____________ laws
_________ for Women!!!
Gov’t services were essential to
________ ________
Deal with ______ consumption, work
environments, etc.

12. Resistance to Progressivism
Progressives wanted the _________ to be involved in the people’s lives
Housing, healthcare, movie content
Clash of interests between the Progressive ad the poor:
Example: Should child labor be banned?
Mistreatment of youth or Provision for families?

13. On Your Own: At the end of your 18.1 notes, list the following names:
Upton Sinclair
Henry George
Edward Bellamy
Florence Kelley
Mother Jones
For each of these, write a brief explanation of what contributions each made to the progressive era.