1. Chapter 28 Notes Power Point
Part 2 of Learning Activity Packet

2. What is Progressivism?
A non-unified “majority mood” between the 1890’s and WWI
Included people from all classes, races, regions
Held the fundamental belief that the nation needed a new social consciousness to cope with economic (?) and social (?)change
Was no unified movement, but a collection of various reform communities attempting to achieve their own goals

3. What is Progressivism a response to?
Corruption in government at all levels
Abuses of big business and its ties to government
Call to increase the power of the common man and woman
The Socialist threat
Problems with urbanization and the growing immigrant population, threat to middle class values

4. Common Themes
Use state power to curb trusts; stem socialist threat by improving common persons conditions
Need to intervene politically/morally to improve society
Stronger government control of economic and social problems
Beginning of rejection of individualism/Darwinism

5. Who was involved in the Progressive Reform Movement?
Mostly middle class men/women (lots of women)
Muckrakers
Politicians – all levels
Scientists/intellectuals/educators

6. Progressive Presidents
3 Progressive Presidents at beginning of 20th c.
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Each uses his own agenda to push through reforms that aim to:
Curb the power of big business
Restore the power of the gov’t
Bring the gov’t closer to the people
Improve the lives of American citizens (health, education, labor, equality, and economic issues)
Prevent SOCIALISM!

7. Progressive Presidents
Each also brings to the presidency a particular brand of foreign policy that is also Progressive in nature:
TR: Big Stick Diplomacy
Show off American might (big navyism), prove to others that we are world power; speak softly, but carry a big stick
WHT: Dollar Diplomacy
Use American $ to ward off enemies in foreign nations, make weaker nations US friendly, dominate world economy
WW: Moral Diplomacy
Shape the rest of the world in the eyes of the US; “Make the world safe for democracy”

8. Women’s Involvement
Use idea of “separate spheres” as extension of traditional roles of wife and mother – become wife/mother to the country
Focus on “maternal issues”: child labor, disease prevention; aid for women w/ dependent children; safer food/medicine;
Form Women’s Trade Union League and National Consumers League to agitate
Suffrage – used state and national strategies
Temperance and Prohibition

9. Progressivism – Social Control
Urban immigrant vs rural Protestant
Rise of the Ethical Elite – example, teach how to live
Laws for control of immigrants, workers, minorities
Middle/Upper class vs. poor
Prohibition
Protestant vs. Catholic
Rural vs. Urban
Native vs. Immigrant
Rich vs. Poor
Owner vs. Worker
Women vs. Men

10. Progressivism - Education
“Americanization”
Expansion of – women, minorities, poor
Earlier/longer – catch little immigrants, make good citizens
1918 – compulsory attendance in all states
Subjects: health, family life, citizenship, ethical behavior

11. PROGRESSIVISM Suffragettes Civi l Rights Muckrackers Temperance Labor
Unions
Popul
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Goo
Goos
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