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Progressive Era

Section 1 Chapter 9

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4 Goals of Progressivism

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

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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.

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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.

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Prohibition

Banning of alcoholic beverages

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Carry A. Nation

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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?

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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.

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

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Reforming Local Government

What natural disasters occurred and what problems did this cause for the

government?

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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.

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