1. Progressivism

2. Progressive Movement
An early-20th-century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life.

3. Progressive Goals 1 Protect social welfare 2 Promote moral improvement
3 Create economic reform
4 Foster efficiency

4. Social Welfare Reform harsh conditions of industrialization
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
Salvation Army
Settlement Houses
Florence Kelley
Jane Addams
Ellen Gates Starr

5. Jane Addams Social & Labor reformer Hull House – 1889
Helped hundreds of Chicago immigrants and others gain self-respect in society
Nobel Peace Prize in 1931
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6. Hull House

8. Promote Moral Improvement
Prohibition – banning of alcoholic beverages
Drinking undermined american morals
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol

9. Create Economic Reform
Economic panic of 1893 caused some to question capitalistic system of the U.S.
Focused on Big Business and Politics
Muckrakers: Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century

10. Foster Efficiency
Many progressive leaders put their faith in experts and scientific principles to make society and the workplace more efficient.
Scientific Management

11. Political Reform

12. Political Reform Local and state governments had to be cleaned up
What needed to be addressed?
Railroads
Child Labor
Elections
17th Amendment: Adopted in 1913, that provides for the election of U.S. senators by the people rather than by state legislatures.
As Americans became more involved in voting, women’s suffrage found renewed attention.