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The Origins of Progressivism. Vocab Words  Progressive movement  Florence Kelley  Prohibition  Muckraker  Initiative  Referendum  17 th Amendment.

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1 The Origins of Progressivism

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

3 Progressive movement – reform (change) movement after the Gilded Age  Protecting social welfare  Promoting moral improvement  Creating economic reform  Fostering efficiency

4 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

5 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  18 th Amendment – outlawed alcohol in the United States Carrie Nation

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7 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

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

9  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

10 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


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