17.1 Progressive movement

4 goals of the progressive movement

• Promote social welfare

• Promoting moral improvement

• creating economic reform

• fostering efficiency

Advocated for labor laws regarding women and children. Passed the Illinois Factory act and the chief inspector of the Illinois factory.

Florence Kelley

Banning of Alcoholic beverages.

Prohibition

spearheaded prohibition - led by women

Woman’s Christian temperance union (WCTU)

A free market; no interference from government

Capitalism

controlled marked; usually by state or fed. government

Socialism

Who organized the socialist party?

Eugene V. Debs

Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of businesses

Muckrakers

Focused on efficiency and production lines

Fredrick Taylor

Reduced hours but made people “work for their $5”

Henry Ford

Regulated big businesses in Wisconsin; known as “Fighting Bob”

Robert M. La Follette

Committee focusing on Child Labor

National Child Labor Committee

Act that stopped transport of goods produced by children over state lines

Keating-Owen act

Court case allowing for women work protection

Muller v. Oregon

Court case allowing for men work protection

Bunting v. Oregon

Bill proposed by the people

Initiative

When legislation votes on a bill proposed by the people

referendum

A revote on public officials by the public if they are not seen as fit by many people

recall

Allowed for popular vote on senators

Seventeenth Amendment

The process of improving effieciency

Scientific Management