1. Progressive Era
Section 1 Chapter 9

2. 4 Goals of Progressivism
1) Protecting Social Welfare
2) Promoting Moral Improvement
3) Creating Economic Reform
4) Fostering Efficiency

3. Protecting Social Welfare
Soften harsh working conditions
Social Gospel movement and settlement houses continue
YMCA—opened libraries, sponsored classes, and built swimming pools, and handball courts.
Salvation Army—fed poor people, cared for children.

4. Florence Kelley
Advocate for improving the lives of women and children.
Chief inspector of factories for Illinois
Illinois Factory Act of 1893 prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours. Became a model for other states.

5. Banning of alcoholic beverages
Prohibition
Banning of alcoholic beverages

6. Carry A. Nation

7. Creating Economic Reform
Eugene V. Debs-- helped organize the American Socialist party in 1901.
What is capitalism and what is Socialism?
Muckrakers—journalist who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the 20th century.
What contribution did muckrakers make to the reform movement?

8. Fostering Efficiency Not all workers could work at the same rate.
Assembly lines—people work them
Henry Ford—introduced the 8 hour work day, paid his workers 5 dollars a day.

9. “Everybody will be able to afford a car, and about everyone will have one.”

10. Reforming Local Government
What natural disasters occurred and what problems did this cause for the government?

11. Mayors Pingree of Detroit Johnson of Cleveland
Pingree—instituted a fairer tax structure, lowered fares for public transportation, rooted out corruption, work relief for unemployed.
Johnson—Socialist Mayor—dismissing corrupt and greedy private owners of utilities, converting the utilities to publicly owned enterprises.