The Origins of Progressivism

Vocab Words Progressive movement Florence Kelley Prohibition Muckraker Initiative Referendum 17th Amendment

Progressive movement – reform (change) movement after the Gilded Age

Protecting social welfare

Promoting moral improvement

Creating economic reform

Fostering efficiency

Social Welfare – help people effected by harsh conditions of industrialization ex. Bad housing Help the poor through

community centers, church's and social services

YMCA – opened libraries, sponsored classes and built swimming pools

Salvation Army – fed the poor in soup kitchens, cared for children in nurseries

Jane Adams settlement house movement

Adams Hull House in Chicago – offered baths, cheap food, child care, job training, health care to the poor

Promoting Moral Improvements – moral and personal behavior needed changing to improve the lives of people example - alcohol abuse causing problems

Women’s Christian Temperance Union worked to end alcohol

Prohibition – banning of alcohol

18th Amendment – outlawed alcohol in the United States

Carrie Nation

Creating Economic Reform – questioning of Capitalism & started the Socialist Party in 1901 Concerned about the uneven balance among

big business, government, and ordinary people

Movement was not very popular but people saw the point behind it

Corruption – big business got favorable treatment from government officials and politicians

Muckrakers – journalist who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulated magazines during the 20th century

Ida M Tarbell wrote “History of the Standard Oil Company” (1904) – revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices and called for the break up of large monopolies

Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (1906) – revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses & led to government regulations of the food industries

Pure Food & Drug Act – passed 1906, banned harmful products & ended false medicine claims

Fostering Efficiency – some reforms put their faith in experts & scientific principles to make society & the workplace better Henry Ford – Ford Automotive cut work

day back to 8 hours a day and paid employees $5 a day