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The Origins of Progressivism
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Progressive Movement (1890’s)Journalists and Writers exposed the unsafe conditions in factories.
Progressive Movement: aimed to return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American Life
1. Protecting Social Welfare
2. Promoting Moral Improvement
3. Creating Economic Reform
4. Fostering Efficiency
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Protecting Social WelfareWelfare Reformers wanted to soften some of the harsh conditions of Industrialization
Settlement Houses: Help poor through community centers, churches and social servicesYMCA: Opened Libraries, classes, built swimming pools
Salvation Army
: Fed the poor, cared for children in nurseries and instruct poor immigrants in middle class values of hard work
Lead by
Florence
Kelley
: Improve the lives of Women and Children. Prohibited child labor and limited women’s work hours. Slide4
Promoting Moral ImprovementProhibition: Banning of alcoholic beverages. (1920 – 1933)
Women’s Christian Temperance Union: Feared alcohol was undermining American morality.
Entered Saloons, singing, praying, Saloonkeepers stop selling alcohol
WCTU
: Opened kindergartens for immigrants, visited inmates and worked for women’s suffrage.
Anti-Saloon League
: Close Saloons to cure society’s problems.
Caused problems between them and immigrantsSlide5
Creating Economic ReformChange the unbalanced among big business, government and the people under the Free Market (Capitalism)
SET UP YOUR BUSINESSBig Business received favorable treatment from government
Limited competition
Muckrakers
: American
journalists, novelists, and critics who, in the early 1900’s, attempted to expose the abuses of business and the corruption in politics
.
Labor
Movement: Unions
fight for workers’ rights using
collective bargainingSlide6
Fostering EfficiencyPushed to make society and the workplace more efficient
Brandeis Brief: Data produced by social scientists documenting the high costs of long working hours for both the individual and society
Break Manufacturing tasks into simpler parts.
Assembly Line
Assembly Lines: (People worked like Machines)
- Sped up production “BUT”
- High worker Turn Over
- Injuries suffered by fatigued workers
- Strikes
To make workers happy some companies: shorter hour work days, pay raise = HAPPY WORKERSSlide7
Reforming Local GovernmentPolitical Bosses rewarded supporters with jobs and kickbacks
- Bought votes with favors and bribesReform was to make the government more responsible to it’s people.
A
llowed city governments to rule themselves to some degree
Mayor
Creation of City Council
(Make decisions for the city, Open to the Public)
City Managers
(run city departments)
Cities
take over partial control of the utilities (electricity, water, etc.)
Provided
Fair tax structure, low fare Transportation, Root out corruption, work
relief programs, lodging houses for the homeless, free
kindergartens, parks.Slide8
Reforming Local GovernmentMayor Focus on dismissing corruption and greedy private owners:
- Gas - Water - Transit Lines
Mayor converted the utilities to public owned enterprisesSlide9
Reforming at the State LevelState Government passed laws to regulate railroads, mines, Mills and telephone companies.
Robert La Follette: Led the way in regulating big businesses.
Railroad
- Taxed RR properties the same as other business properties
- Regulated Rates
- Forbid free
p
asses to State Officials
Why did Children work?
Children worked for cheap, handle small parts, helped family income
End Child Labor
(Nation Child Labor Committee)
Children prone to accidents, developed health problems, stunted growthSlide10
Reforming at the State LevelThe Supreme Court were usually sympathetic of the workers
Women required states protection against powerful employersReduced Women’s hours
Workers compensation to aid families of workers who were hurt or killed on the jobSlide11
Reforming at the State Level
Voters gain more direct influence on politics:
Secret Ballots
Citizens can propose laws (
initiative
)
Citizens
can accept or reject laws (
referendum
)
Can remove leaders from office (
recall
)
Voters
pick candidates to run for office
(
direct primary
)
Before 1912
State Legislature chose own US Senators giving more power to the party bosses and wealthy corporation heads
17
th
Amendment-voters directly elect US senatorsSlide12
Progressives Wanted Change
Upton Sinclair writes “The Jungle”Book about the horrors of the meat packing industry
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