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Page 1: PROGRESSIVE ERA. FOUR MAIN GOALS OF PROGRESSIVISM Protect social welfare Promote moral improvement Create economic reform Foster efficiency

PROGRESSIVE ERA

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FOUR MAIN GOALS OF PROGRESSIVISM

• Protect social welfare• Promote moral improvement• Create economic reform• Foster efficiency

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SOCIAL WELFARE

• YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association)• opened libraries• sponsored classes• Built swimming pools, courts

• Salvation Army• soup kitchens• child care

• “Social Gospel”:• Settlement Homes• community centers• Churches• social services

~YMCA Basketball League, 1896

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WHAT IS THE SOCIAL GOSPEL?

• As spoken by one of the preachers of the ‘Social Gospel’:• “the application of the teaching of Jesus and the total

message of the Christian salvation to society, economic life, and social institutions…as well as the individual.”

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FIRST SETTLEMENT HOUSE, HULL HOUSE, CHICAGO

• Jane Addams, co-founded with Ellen Gates Starr, 1889.

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~Nursery, Hull House

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“Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all

people.”~Jane Addams

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FLORENCE KELLEY

• Advocate for improving lives of women and children.

• Helped pass Illinois Factory Act of 1893, prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours.

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MORAL IMPROVEMENT: PROHIBITION

• WCTU, founded in 1874 in Cleveland: Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

• Frances Willard is key in growing WCTU to a national organization.

• 245,000 members by 1911.

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ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE, 1895

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ECONOMIC REFORM

• Panic of 1893: prompted some to question capitalist system.

• Eugene V. Debs: helped organize American Socialist Party (1901); argued against uneven economic distribution between business, government, and ordinary people.

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JOURNALISTS OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY: MUCKRAKERS

• Wrote about corrupt side of business and public life.

• Ida Tarbell; called out Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company.

• Lincoln Steffens; exposed business and government corruption in McClure’s Magazine.

• Upton Sinclair; The Jungle (1905).• Jacob Riis; How the Other Half Lives (1890)

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CHILD LABOR

• National Child Labor Committee (1904): formulated in New York City to investigate child labor; led to ban in 1916 (overturned in Supreme Court in 1918); wouldn’t fully be endorsed until 1930s.

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SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT

• Frederick Winslow Taylor: “Taylorism,” uses time and motion studies to improve efficiency by breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler parts.

• How fast could work be performed?• Assembly-line manufacturing.

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HENRY FORD

• Reduced workday to eight hours and paid workers $5 per day.

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