PDF-The Progressive Era: How Progressive Were the Progressives?

nalyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Analysis Standards Addressed Chronological and Spatial Thinking 2 Students analyze how change happ. Reform Under Taft. TR decided not to run again for re-election. He instead chose his successor in . William Howard Taft. . TR thought Taft had his same progressive mentality and TR went on a year-long safari to kill about everything he could in Africa.. By Ashley Granados. What was the Progressive Era?. The Progressive Era was a period of time when people were trying to make serious improvements in American society. Many of these progressives tried to improve areas like government and politics, poverty, women's suffrage, alcohol abuse, and child labor. Many of these issued arose with the sudden growth of industry. Photographs were extremely important in the progressive movement. They allowed people, often the wealthy, see what it was like for some of these people.. The Progressive Era. March 25. th. 1911 – a fire broke out on the upper floors of a factory building – and nearly 150 died (trapped, some jumped, some burned). Was not the worst industrial fire ever, but had a huge impact on public consciousness- and became an example of why business NEEDED regulation. Focused attention on the social divisions within America. The Progressive Era. As the 1800s ended, only a handful of people were wealthy, while immigrants and poor laborers continued to live and work under harsh conditions. . Many citizens and government officials began to demand reforms in government, business, and society. . The Transformation of the American Republic and Society. TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Rise of the Progressives. Who are they and what was their philosophy?. The Social Issues the Progressives Addressed. What were they concerned about in society?. The Progressive Era. As the 1800s ended, only a handful of people were wealthy, while immigrants and poor laborers continued to live and work under harsh conditions. . Many citizens and government officials began to demand reforms in government, business, and society. . GHHS. Progressive era. I. Sources of Progressive Reform. A. Industrialization, with all its increase in productivity and the number of consumer goods, created . 1) Unemployment and labor unrest . 2) Wasteful use of natural resources . Lesson 1 . Progressives Drive Reform. Learning Objectives. Identify the causes of Progressivism and compare it to Populism.. Analyze the role that journalists and novelists played in the Progressive Movement.. What was the Progressive Movement?. “A . Response to . Industrialism”. “A Search for ORDER”. How . does one produce a more humane, yet “ordered” society?. “Innovative Nostalgia”. Social Darwinists. What is Progressivism?. What was the Progressive movement?. Social/political movement of early 1900s that attempted to use activism as well as . gov’t. power to cure social problems. Why was this so groundbreaking?. The Main Idea. Progressives focused on . three areas of reform. : . easing the suffering of the urban poor, improving unfair and dangerous working conditions, and reforming government at the national, state, and local levels. . THE BIG QUESTIONS:. How did farmers respond to the problems they faced in the late 19. th. Century?. How. did muckrakers and other Progressives reform American Society?. What has been the legacy of the Progressive Presidents?. How did farmers respond to their problems?. 1870-1890. : extension of farming to the Great Plains and the . greater use of machinery led to an abundance of crops. .. More crops drove prices down . but the cost of running a farm remained high.. What changes are we going to see during the Progressive Era?. What were the . problems. of the Gilded Age? . How can they be fixed?. The Progressive Era. 1890-1920. What were the issues of the Gilded Age?.