Main Goals of Progressivism: (How to fix American society)

Goal 1: Protect Social Welfare Goal 2: Promote Moral Improvements Goal 3: Create Economic Reform Goal 4: Fostering Efficiency

Fix the workplace and living conditions Social Gospel and Settlement Movement

Jane Addams and others inspire new ideas YMCA- Young Men’s Christian Association

Funded libraries, classes Built swimming pools & Handball courts

Salvation Army Fed poor people Cared for children

Florence Kelley- Helped win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893

Prohibited child labor

Salvation Army

Jane Addams Hull House

Fix the way people act and live (Morals)

Want immigrants and city dwellers to fix their lives WCTU- Woman’s Christian Temperance

Movement Prohibition- ban alcohol (18th Amendment) Carrie Nation went into saloons; would sing, pray,

beak bottles Provide education for immigrants

Fix Economy People think capitalism is wrong big business & Gov’t to wealthy Eugene Debs forms the American Socialist Party Muckrakers begin to write about corruption in big

business & Politics Ida Tarbell – “History of the Standard Oil Company”

Exposed cutthroat methods of Standard Oil Co.

Upton Sinclair- “The Jungle” Exposed the problems in the Meat Packing Plants

Lincoln Steffens- The Shame of the Cities Exposed the problems with corruption in politics in Cities

Make work and life more efficient well run, better Henry Ford

Invents and maximizes the ASSEMBLY LINE He pays his workers $5 a day

Introduced five, eight hour work days Keeps employees HAPPY

Invents the MODEL T

The famous Model T

Assembly Line

Henry Ford

ECONOMIC Teddy Roosevelt introduces Square Deal

Helped out common man, gov’t protects people not business FDA, USDA, No Child Labor

New Tax System is instituted (16th Amendment) Graduated income tax

Roosevelt Breaks up Trust (Trust Buster) Clayton Antitrust Act

POLITICAL Elections are reformed

Direct Elections of Senators (17th Amendment)

Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Direct Primary

Women get the right to vote 19th Amendment

HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT Conservationists establish wilderness

conservation areas and preserve natural resources National parks form

Yellow Stone National Park Pure Food and Drug Act

Protects consumers-

SOCIAL & MORAL Women fight for right to vote- 19th

Prohibition- 18th Amendment bans alcohol

Social Services- YMCA SALVATION ARMY

INDUSTRY National Child Labor Committee organized to

end child labor children go to school Reformers improve working conditions

8 hour workday Safe, clean environment Fire code- can’t lock doors, windows, new

fire escape, more than 1 exit, etc

Creativity The story contains many creative details and/or descriptions that contribute to the reader\'s enjoyment. The author has really used his imagination.

The story contains a few creative details and/or descriptions that contribute to the reader\'s enjoyment. The author has used his imagination.

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Accuracy of Facts All facts presented in the story are accurate.

Almost all facts presented in the story are accurate.

Most facts presented in the story are accurate (at least 70%).

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Spelling and Punctuation

There are no spelling or punctuation errors in the final draft. Character and place names that the author invented are spelled consistently throughout.

There is one spelling or punctuation error in the final draft.

There are 2-3 spelling and punctuation errors in the final draft.

The final draft has more than 3 spelling and punctuation errors.

Organization The story is very well organized. One idea or scene follows another in a logical sequence with clear transitions.

The story is pretty well organized. One idea or scene may seem out of place. Clear transitions are used.

The story is a little hard to follow. The transitions are sometimes not clear.

Ideas and scenes seem to be randomly arranged.

Requirements All of the written requirements (# of pages, # of graphics, type of graphics, etc.) were met.

Almost all (about 90%) the written requirements were met.

Most (about 75%) of the written requirements were met, but several were not.

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(17-1) The Origins of Progressivism

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.

Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.

1. what did the rose represent in Tupac’s poem?

2. Who was the progressive that we talked about when you 1st came into class? What did he expose?

List 3 of the reforms progressives were involved in?