Progressive Era Overview
Journal Entry:
Origins of Progressivism
• Of the four goals of the Progressive
Movement, which is most important?
• What was the most important
political/government reform discussed in
this section?
Discussion 9.1
• Turn to p. 306.
• Discuss each section of the reading in your group.
(Discuss key idea of each red heading).
• Discussion should bounce around with different
people discussing a key point or thought about
each section.
• Following, discuss the following journal questions:
• Of the four goals, which is most important?
• What was the most important political/government
reform discussed in this section?
What is the Progressive Movement?
a.
Progressive Movement—Reform effort
which aimed to return control of the
government to the people, restore
economic opportunities, and correct
injustices in American life.
Goals of the Progressive Movement
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
Protecting social welfare, which meant to try to
relieve some of the urban problems related to
industrialization.
Promoting moral improvement, which meant
improving personal morality would help improve the
lives of poor people.
Creating economic reform, which meant looking
critically at capitalism and looking for ways to improve
our economic system.
Fostering efficiency, which meant making workers
and factories more productive by using scientific
management to make tasks simpler and easier for
workers, and the assembly line to make production
faster in factories.
Key Point
• Progressive reformers did not all agree on
what problems to solve and how to solve
them. However, they all related to one of
the four areas listed above.