Progressivism: Making Progress In The Industrial Age
Progressives
Ch.21
The term progressivism is derived from people looking to make progress in the industrial age for the notion of a better life
Progressives wanted
To limit the power of big business
Improve democracy
Strengthen social justice
Origins of progressivism
The era began with a new young president named teddy Roosevelt
It ended when public attention was diverted away from social issues with the start of WW1
Attitudes and motives
Going into the turn of the century there were already great issues among the migration of new people. The large gap between rich and poor. Jim crow laws. And women’s suffrage added a great amount of fuel to the fire.
People felt that the government was the correct vehicle to transport their
idea of social reform
Churches were middle class people were the ones who really wanted reform. They were the doctors and the lawyers of the day. People such as Walter Rauschenberg advocated and used gospel to convey their message of helping the poor and reducing prejudice.
Roosevelt for republican and Wilson for democrat favored public progressivism
They believe in a guess and check system until the populous found a solution to the problem
Scientific management was also and new idea advocated and invented by Frederick w. Taylor.
Under this Frederick taylor timed a factory with a stop watch then took each section and devised a solution to make it run more effectively
The Muckrakers
Teddy referred to the investigative journalists as much rakers (the jungle was a popular one and brought the atrocities in meatpacking plants to the public eye)
Ida Tarbell rang a bell on standard oil
Her dad was an owned an oil refinery in which Rockefeller ran out of business
Muckraking declined after 1910 due to the economic pressures put on by large businesses and banks, Public relations were released and brought bad things company’s did to light
Political reform in the
Introduction of the secret ballot
Ch.21
The term progressivism is derived from people looking to make progress in the industrial age for the notion of a better life
Progressives wanted
To limit the power of big business
Improve democracy
Strengthen social justice
Origins of progressivism
The era began with a new young president named teddy Roosevelt
It ended when public attention was diverted away from social issues with the start of WW1
Attitudes and motives
Going into the turn of the century there were already great issues among the migration of new people. The large gap between rich and poor. Jim crow laws. And women’s suffrage added a great amount of fuel to the fire.
People felt that the government was the correct vehicle to transport their
idea of social reform
Churches were middle class people were the ones who really wanted reform. They were the doctors and the lawyers of the day. People such as Walter Rauschenberg advocated and used gospel to convey their message of helping the poor and reducing prejudice.
Roosevelt for republican and Wilson for democrat favored public progressivism
They believe in a guess and check system until the populous found a solution to the problem
Scientific management was also and new idea advocated and invented by Frederick w. Taylor.
Under this Frederick taylor timed a factory with a stop watch then took each section and devised a solution to make it run more effectively
The Muckrakers
Teddy referred to the investigative journalists as much rakers (the jungle was a popular one and brought the atrocities in meatpacking plants to the public eye)
Ida Tarbell rang a bell on standard oil
Her dad was an owned an oil refinery in which Rockefeller ran out of business
Muckraking declined after 1910 due to the economic pressures put on by large businesses and banks, Public relations were released and brought bad things company’s did to light
Political reform in the
Introduction of the secret ballot