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What was the progressivism movement? Define.
What were the four goals of progressivism?
What amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution
during the progressive movement?
What group of people helped bring many of the issues
during Progressivism to the public?
Which three Presidents were most involved in the
Progressivism movement?
List 3 major accomplishments of the Progressive era that
we still see today?
PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
Origins of Progressivism
Objectives
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Explain the 4 goals of progressivism
Identify efforts to reform state
government, protect workers, and
reform elections
The coming of change….
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Journalists and writers exposed unsafe condition
like never before
Middle class stepping in to help reform
Intellectuals questioned the dominant role of
large corporations in American society
Progressivism Movement
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Aimed to restore economic opportunities and
correct injustices in American life
4 Goals of Progressivism
Protecting social welfare
Promoting moral improvement
Creating economic reform
Fostering Efficiency
1. Protecting Social Welfare
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Social Gospel movement & settlement houses continued
through during the Progressive Era
YMCA – established libraries, pools, recreation centers
Salvation Army – soup kitchens
Florence Kelly
Florence Kelly- advocate for improving lives of
women and children
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Chief inspector of factories for IL
Pushed for child labor laws
Limit women’s work hours
Daughter of antislavery Republican congressman
1899 – General Secretary of National Consumers’ League
Worked in Hull House
What motivated Kelly to spend
her life working for such reform?
2. Promoting Moral Improvement
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Morality needed to be reformed
 Immigrants/poor
city dwellers needed to uplift themselves by
improving personal behavior
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Prohibition- banning of alcoholic beverages
 Alcohol
was undermining American values!!!
 Lead by WCTU
(Women’s Christian Temperance Movement)
3. Creating Economic Reform
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Severe economic panic in 1893 prompted American to
question Capitalistic Economic System
 Embraced
 Eugene
SOCIALISM  Social Party 1901
V. Debs: pushed for the formation of unions and socialism.
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Muckrakers-journalists who wrote about
the corrupt side of business/public life
Labor Unions Form
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Working long hours 7 days a week 12 or more
hours
Wages so low most families couldn’t survive
 Men,
women and children all had to work (some as
young as 5 years old)
Men avg. $498
 Women avg. $267
 Children 27cents for 14-hr days
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Child Labor
Child Labor
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_la
bor/about/us_history.html
Ban child labor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mplPjjex4I8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPw4jTDKYbg
4. Fostering Efficiency
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Research done on the workplace
Time and motion studies to improve efficiency
 Break
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down task into simpler parts
Scientific management- studies to see just how
quickly each task could be preformed
(Improving efficiency also targeted government)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfw0KapQ3qw
What to take away from the 4 goals
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Protecting Social
Welfare
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Protect & help the
people no matter WHO
or WHERE they come
from
Promoting Moral
Improvement
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Uplift by improving self
behavior
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Creating Economic
Reform
Severe economic panic
1893  ? Capitalism
 Socialism vs Capitalism
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Fostering Efficiency
Workplace more
efficient
 Scientific Management
 High worker turnover:
injury, fatigue
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Henry Ford
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Introduction of the assembly line
 Model
T
“Everyone will be able to afford [a car] and about
everyone will have one” -1909
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbsBcPDVQM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZlJ0vtUu4w
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To keep workers happy – thus limiting strikes
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8 hour work day
$5 a day
Cleaning Up the Local Government
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Grew out of distrust of immigrants involvement in
politics
Political Bosses corruption of cities
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Also prompted by natural disasters
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1900 Hurricane/tidal wave destroyed Galveston, TX
 Officials botched relief effort SO bad TX legislature
appointed 5 member commission of experts to take over
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Needed more efficiency during this industrial time
5 Member Commission
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Each member took over a different
city
department
Success prompted city to adopt commission idea as a
form of government
Member had training or
past experience in area
Can you think of any modern day
examples?
Hurricane Katrina
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Criticism from politicians, activists, and journalists of all stripes
was directed at the local and state governments headed by
Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans and Louisiana Governor
Kathleen Blanco.
Nagin and Blanco were criticized for failing to implement New
Orleans' evacuation plan and for ordering residents to a
shelter of last resort without any provisions for food, water,
security, or sanitary conditions.
Perhaps the most important criticism of Nagin was that he
delayed his emergency evacuation order until 19 hours before
landfall, which led to hundreds of deaths of people who (by
that time) could not find any way out of the city.
 The destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina raised other, more general public policy
issues about emergency management, environmental policy, poverty, and unemployment.
 The discussion of both the immediate response and of the broader public policy issues
may have affected elections and legislation enacted at various levels of government.
 The storm's devastation also prompted a Congressional investigation, which found that
FEMA and the Red Cross "did not have a logistics capacity sophisticated enough to fully
support the massive number of Gulf coast victims." Additionally, it placed responsibility
for the disaster on all three levels of government
Cedar Rapids Floods
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A couple months after the June floods, Iowa flood victims reported violent coughing,
headaches, and conditions such as Asthma, Bronchitis, and other health issues worsening since
moving in to the trailers. KGAN-TV out of Cedar Rapids tested 20 trailers in the Cedar Rapids
area under contract with a nationally certified chemical testing company, with testing kits
finding unsafe levels of Formaldehyde in six of them, according to Environmental Protection
Agency and American Lung Association limits, which are more stringent than FEMA's or Iowa's
standards.
Officials criticized for progress taking longer than expected
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Still houses from flood standing
Downtown CR vacant and bare
How do you bring business back?
Statistics [The Gazette/KCRG-TV 1]
Houses damaged: 5,238 (parcels: 5,390)
Businesses damaged: 940 (parcels: 1,049)
Non-profits/faith organizations damaged:
77
City blocks affected: 1,300 (10 square
miles)
River levels: Crest 31.12 feet June 13,
2008 at 10:15 am (flood stage 12 feet),
One month after crest: 8.66 feet, Two months
after crest: 4.43 feet,
Previous record crests: 20 feet in 1929 and
1951, 19.27 feet in 1993
State Level
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Robert M. La Follette- Republican Governor of
Wisconsin
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way in regulating big business – “drive them out of
politics”
 Targeted railroad industry
Reform Politics
Reforming Elections
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Initiative: bill originated by
people rather than law
makers
Referendum: Vote on
initiative
Recall: Enable voters to
remove public officials by
holding another election
Direct Election of Senators
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Old way State
legislature choose
Senators
17th Amendment:
People get to elect
their Senator