Transcript Section 9-1

Section 8-1
The Origins of Progressivism
Four Goals of Progressivism
• Progressive Movement- Aimed to return
control of the government to the people,
restore economic opportunities, and
correct injustices in American life.
1. Protecting social welfare
2. Promoting moral improvement
3. Creating economic reform
4. Fostering efficiency
Protecting Social Welfare
• Young Men’s Christian Association
(YMCA)
• Salvation Army
• Florence Kelley- an advocate for
improving lives of women and children.
Helped win the passage of the Illinois
Factory Act in 1893. This act prohibited
child labor and limited women’s working
hours.
Promoting Moral Improvement
• Prohibition- The banning of alcoholic
beverages.
• Women’s Christian Temperance Union
(WCTU)
• Anti-Saloon League
Creating Economic Reform
• Muckrakers- journalists who wrote about
the corrupt side of business and public life
in mass circulation magazines.
Fostering Efficiency
• Scientific Management- methods industrial
reformers used to see how quickly tasks
could be performed. Breaking
manufacturing tasks into simpler parts.
Cleaning Up Local Government
• Reform mayors– Hazen Pingree- (Detroit) fairer tax structure,
lowered fares for public transportation, rooted
out corruption, and set up a system of work
relief for the unemployed.
– Tom Johnson- (Cleveland) dismissed corrupt
and greedy private owners of utilities,
believed that citizens should play more active
role in city government.
Reform at the State Level
• Robert M. La Follette- Progressive Republican Governor
from Wisconsin. Led the way in regulating big business.
• Initiative- a bill originated by the people rather than
lawmakers.
• Referendum- a vote on the initiative.
• Recall- enabled voters to remove public officials from
elected positions by forcing them to face another election
before the end of their term if enough voters asked for it.
• Seventeenth Amendment- made direct election of
senators the law of the land.