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Goals of the Progressive Movement

• Protect Social Welfare

• Promote Moral Improvement

• Create Economic Reform

• Fostering Efficiency

Social Welfare Protection

Campaigns for Child Labor Laws, National Consumer League

Moral Improvements

• Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

  • Prohibition (fearing that alcohol was undermining American morals)

  • Undre Frances Willard- the largest women’s group in the US

  • Settlement Houses (helped poorest of the poor people get back on their feet)

Economic Reforms

Regulations on big business, labor regulations, socialism (we all share) vs capitalism (exploiting people for money)

Efficiency in the Progressive Movement

Assembly lines created, scientific managment

Election Reforms

Primary voting (popular voting for the election of candidates), initiatives, recalls, 17th ammendment

Muckrakers

wrote about the issues of monopolies and large corporations like meat packing, lack of refrigerations and lack of regulation on medicine

Corporations

lots of workers with little pay, no regulations, was built off of the darkness behind the scenes

Protection of Children’s Rights

no work without permits, impact on their physical health and safe, legalization of schools

President Theadore Roosevelt

Republican, 1901-1908, The Square Deal

The Square Deal

Anti-trust, regulation, pure food and drug act, conservation of natural resources, formation of national parks

affects of Pure Food and Drug Act

sanitation, wearing gloves and hairnets in food industry, refrigeration for food, trials/dosage/and creation of medicine

Why was Taff elected

People expected him to follow in the footsteps of Roosevelt

Howard Taft

Republican, 1908, did NOT continue conservationism

Origins of the Progressive Movement

Unsafe conditions, dominance of large corporation, movement to make the gov’t respond to the needs of the people

Women in Public Life

• Farms (south/midwest): Not much change

• Industry (Cities): better pay, more options for work, required more education

• Domestic: Mostly cooking/cleaning service dogs

Women’s Reform Movements

• Women’s Suffrage Movement- the right to vote, convince state legislature, pursue court cases to test the 14th amendment

• Higher Education

Susan B Anthony

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

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Election of 1912

President Howard Taft

President Woodrow Wilson

What is a monopoly

Financial reforms under Winslow

In what ways did the Progressive Movement fail to provide support for All Americans