The Progressive Movement 19001916

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The Progressive Movement (1900-1916)
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The time period that called for extreme measures
to bring about change.
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4 Goals of Progressives

• Promote Moral Reform
• Improve Personal Behavior
• Protect Social Welfare
• Improve City Life
• Create Economic Reform
• Improve workers lives
• Improve Factory Efficiency
• Raise Production

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Goal 1 Promote Moral Reform(a.k.a., Improve
Personal Behavior)

• The People involved
• Carry Nation
• Anti-Saloon League
• Womens Christian Temperance Union
• Favored the Prohibition of Alcohol

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Goal 2 Protect Social Welfare(a.k.a., Improve
City Life)

• The People Involved
• Jane Addams
• YMCA, YWCA
• Salvation Army
• Helped newcomers adjust in cities

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Goal 3 Create Economic Reform(a.k.a., Improve
Workers Lives)

• The People Involved
• Muckrakers
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair
• Exposed the Corruption of Business

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Goal 4 Improve Factory Efficiency(a.k.a., Raise
Production)

• The People Involved
• Henry Ford
• Applied Scientific Principles to Business
  Management

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Quiz Time!

• Name the people who wanted to improve city
  life.

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• Who helped apply scientific principles to
  business management?

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• What year did the progressive movement begin?