The Progressive Movement (1900-1916)
The time period that called for extreme measures to bring about change.
4 Goals of Progressives:
Promote Moral Reform
Improve Personal Behavior Improve City Life Improve workers’ lives
Raise Production
Protect Social Welfare
Create Economic Reform
Improve Factory Efficiency
Goal 1: Promote Moral Reform (a.k.a., Improve Personal Behavior)
The People involved:
Carry Nation Anti-Saloon League Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Favored the Prohibition of Alcohol
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
Goal 3: Create Economic Reform (a.k.a., Improve Workers’ Lives)
The People Involved:
Muckrakers Ida Tarbell Upton Sinclair
Exposed the Corruption of Business
Goal 4: Improve Factory Efficiency (a.k.a., Raise Production)
The People Involved:
Henry Ford
Applied Scientific Principles to Business Management
Quiz Time!
Name the people who wanted to improve city life.
Who helped apply scientific principles to business management?
What year did the progressive movement begin?