are about to start a new kind of life with a fresh machinery of government. This is the case of the reinvention movement for democratic governance that is still largely a source of explanation of the American public administration orientation. As explained in the book “Introducing Public Administrations”‚ the idea of reinventing government is rationally the continuation of the progressive movement’s philosophy of continuous improvement ( Shafritz‚ page
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The social gospel movement was a reform movement that was emerged among Protestant Christians to improve the economic‚ moral and social conditions of the urban working class. One prominent leader of the social gospel movement was a New York City pastor and theologian called Walter Rauschenbusch. Protestant leaders followed Rauschenbusch’s idea that social problems were actually just moral problems on a large scale‚ and they were convinced that many social issues could be cured by what they called
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Educational Reform Movement In the early 1800s education in American wasn ’t the best. Most schools were small and only went for 6 weeks because the children worked on their family farms. Other‚ more wealthy‚ children would have a tutor in their homes or they would be sent to a private school. The children that did go to school would sit in a one room building with 60 other children. The teachers also didn ’t have much training and has limited knowledge to teach the children. They also received
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Progressives have always been rather varied‚ they included young female workers‚ corporate reformers‚ as well as segregationists. As stated by Leah S. Glaser‚ “Progressivism‚ a misnomer to some; after all‚ what was necessarily “progressive” about the electric chair or segregation” (Glaser‚ Leah S‚ virginia.edu). Yet segregation was still viewed as progressive and a safety precaution by many progressives in the north and south. As stated by Leah S. Glaser‚ “the reformers responded mostly to the advancement
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During the progressive era the United States was caught in a forward thinking fever. During this historic time the United States had to progress in social and business settings to keep up with its booming population. During this time people were taking advantage of everyone they could‚ even committing atrocities towards other human beings. The persecutors of such crimes included everyone from politicians‚ to businessmen‚ to everyday people. The progressive leaders of the United States were able to
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Women and the Fight for Reform Women in the late 19th century‚ except in the few western states where they could vote‚ were denied much of a role in the governing process. Nonetheless‚ educated the middle-class women saw themselves as a morally uplifting force and went on to be reformers. Jane Addams opened the social settlement of Hull House in 1889. It offered an array of services to help the poor deal with slum housing‚ disease‚ crowding‚ jobless‚ infant mortality‚ and
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Transcendentalism was one such social and progressive movement in nineteenth century America that centered around reality existing not merely on a physical level‚ but on a higher‚ spiritual one as well. In order to achieve this understanding‚ one must seek truth and perceive life with ideas and emotions. To illustrate this idea‚ Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau created five principles that provided the foundation for this movement: nonconformity‚ self-reliance‚ confidence
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Throughout history‚ reform movements emerged‚ causing a tremendous social extension of reform from the late nineteenth century into the Progressive movement of 1900-1920. Subsequent to moving into the United States‚ immigrants had seen a new side of the impeccable nation it lead itself on to be‚ as many children previously living in America‚ were living in squalid conditions and were being exhausted through extensive and unsafe work. Along with immigrants‚ women in America were also beginning to
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Progressive Movement: "The Progressive movement of 1900 to 1917 was a triumph of conservatism rather than a victory for liberalism." I disagree with this statement. The basic philosophy of "conservatism" is that change is bad. The basic "historian" definition of progressivism is: a movement for social change and improvement. For this reason‚ it is accurate to say that this era was a triumph of liberalism. The Progressive movement was a time of extreme changes where‚ social‚ urban‚ and economic;
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During the progressive era (1880-1920) reformers tried to address the problems created by the rapid industrialization of United States in the second half of the 19th century. Many of the problems stemmed from the tremendous disparity in income between the newly enriched industries‚ who ran industry‚ and the workers- poor whites‚ immigrants and blacks-who built the railroads and worked in the factories. Some reformers achieved significant change. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the presidents of the
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