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Progressive Movement
__________________
•  Driven by the forgotten ____________stuck
between corporations and working class
•  Upset over _______________practices and
corruption of government and business
–  Wanted the government to be more responsive to
our nation’s problems
–  Restore economic opportunities and correct
injustices
•  There were Progressives in all __________
and all ________________ of government
Goals of Progressive
Movement
•  Promote and protect _____________
–  Especially the _________________
•  Promote moral improvement of citizens
•  Create _________________ reform
–  Work place conditions
•  Fight political and economic _________
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______________________
•  Your environment, not your _________,
was most important factor in human
development
–  Went against many early scientific
studies
–  Improve environment=_______________
–  Better schools, homes, etc. = __________
•  Teach middle class values to everyone
Home and School
•  Better housing and
schools would
transform lives of
poor
•  __________: Better
schools=better
citizens
Social Welfare Reform
•  Help correct harsh conditions caused by
_______________________
•  ___________________________: Church
membership increased dramatically in late 1800s
–  Social betterment tied to salvation
–  Believed people had the duty to help improve the lives of the
poor
–  Charles Sheldon (1897)- What Would Jesus Do
•  Teach the poor middle class values
•  Give aid to the poor
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_____________________
•  _____________ house
movement
•  _____________(1889)
•  Use religious ideas to
deal with poverty, social
ills
•  Primary focus:
___________________
•  Provide daycare,
education and
healthcare to poor
Progressive ___________
•  Journalists drove Progressivism
•  Given nickname by T.Roosevelt due to
their investigative zeal
•  Revolutionized ________________ and
exposed corruption
Major Muckraker Works
•  David Phillips: The
Treason of the Senate
•  Upton Sinclair:
__________________”
•  ______________: How
the Other Half Lives
•  ____________expose
of John D. Rockefeller
–  “History of the Standard
Oil Company”
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Jacob Riis:
How the Other
Half Lives
(1890)
Child Labor
•  _____________: major
crusader against child
labor
–  Chief inspector of
factories in Illinois
–  Won passage of Illinois
law banning child labor
and limiting women’s
working hours
–  1905-1907: 2/3 of states
passed child labor law
•  Compulsory
_______________ laws
increase
__________________
•  Progressives opposed consumption of ___________
–  It contradicted concept of healthy, educated citizens
(some called it sin)
–  _______________________________________
•  Led by _____________________________
•  Became the largest women’s group in history
•  Will expand into opening daycares, kindergartens,
suffrage
–  1906-1912: 7 States passed temperance laws
–  By WWI: 50% of U.S. territory was dry (usually rural
areas)
–  1917: __________________________--full Prohibition
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