1. Origins of Progressivism
Chapter 9 -1
Origins of Progressivism

2. Section Identification / Vocabulary
Progressive movement
Florence Kelley
Prohibition
Muckraker
Scientific management
Robert F. LaFollette
Initiative
Referrendum
Recall
17th Amendment

3. Student Objectives Students will be able to:
Identify and describe the goals of Progressivism.
Identify and describe the roles of key individuals presented in the section.
Identify and correctly use the key terms presented in the section.

4. Social Welfare Reforms
Social Welfare Reform Movement
People or groups involved:
The YMCA, Salvation Army, Florence Kelly, and settlement houses.
Successes:
Illinois Factory Act, growth of public services

5. Social Welfare Reforms
Florence Kelly
Fought against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays and children's rights.
(September 12, 1859 – February 17, 1932)

6. Morality Reforms Moral Reform Movement: People or groups involved:
WCTU; Frances Willard; Anti-Saloon League; Carrie Nation
Successes:
Prohibition adopted by many town and state governments.

7. Morality Reforms
Carrie Nation
(November 25, June 9, 1911)

8. Women’s Christian Temperance Union

9. Economic Reforms Economic Reform Movement: People or groups involved:
Eugene V. Debs; American Socialist Party; muckrakers; Ida M. Tarbell
Successes:
Exposed corruption in industry

10. Economic Reforms
Muckrakers: Journalists who wrote about corporate abuses
Ida Tarbell: Wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904.
Helped lead to the break up of Standard Oil.

11. Industrial Reforms Movement for Industrial Efficiency:
People or groups involved:
Henry Ford; Frederick Winslow Taylor; Ford Motor Company
Successes:
Ford Assembly line, “Five Dollar Day”

12. Industrial Reforms Movement to Protect Workers:
People or groups involved:
National Child Labor Committee; Louis Brandeis; Florence Kelley; Josephine Goldmark
Successes:
Keating-Owen Act; State child-labor laws; Muller v. Oregon; Bunting v. Oregon; workers’ compensation laws.

13. Industrial Reforms Governor Robert Lafollette (Wisconsin)
Targeted the RR. Why?
To protect children
Too many children working
Earning less pay
Not going to school
Victims of accidents
Used photography to show horrors: forced National Labor Committee to investigate
Led to the Keating's Owen Act (1916): stopped transportation of goods produced by children across state lines.

14. Industrial Reforms Limiting Hours and protecting workers
Women and children become focus
Muller v. Oregon: Limits women to a 10 hour work day
Workers compensation for families injured or killed at work

15. Political Reforms Movement to Reform Local Government;
People or groups involved:
Hazen Pringree; Tom Johnson
Successes:
Commission and council-manager forms of government were adopted; taxes on property; public ownership of utilities; various other economic reforms.

16. Political Reforms
He gained national recognition through his "potato patch plan," a systematic use of vacant city land for gardens which would produce food for the city's poor.

17. Political Reforms State Reform of Big Business
People or groups involved:
Robert M. LaFollette; Charles B. Aycock; James Hogg
Successes:
Wisconsin laws to regulate the railroads

18. Political Reforms Movement for Election Reform:
People or groups involved:
William S. U’Ren
Successes:
States adopted the secret ballot, initiative, referendum, recall and direct primary elections; 17th Amendment.

19. Political Reforms Promote Democracy and Citizen Action
Initiative: Bill written by people not congress
Secret ballot:
Recall: remove
Referendum: a vote on the initiative. People decide not congress
17th Amendment: Direct election of Senators
What does this all mean? People have more say in the government

20. Progressive Policies Efforts to Limit Working Hours Reform Governors
Reform at the State Level
Protecting Working Children
Reforming Elections
Direct Election of Senators

21. Student Objectives Students will be able to:
Identify and describe the goals of Progressivism.
Identify and describe the roles of key individuals presented in the section.
Identify and correctly use the key terms presented in the section.