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The Origins of Progressivism

As you read about the era of reform, take notes about the goals, reformers, and successes of the reform movements.

Social Reforms	People and Groups Involved	Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc.)
1. Social welfare reform movement
2. Moral reform movement
3. Economic reform movement
4. Movement for industrial efficiency
5. Movement to protect workers
Political Reforms	People and Groups Involved	Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc.)
6. Movement to reform local government
7. State reform of big business
8. Movement for election reform

Name____________________

The Origins of Progressivism

As you read about the era of reform, take notes about the goals, reformers, and successes of the reform movements.

Social Reforms	People and Groups Involved	Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc.)
1. Social welfare reform movement	YMCA, Salvation Army, settlement houses, Florence Kelley	Variety of Public services, Illinois Factory Act
2. Moral reform movement	SCTU, Frances Willard, Anti-Saloon League	Prohibition adopted by many town and state governments
3. Economic reform movement	Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Eugene V. Debs, American Socialist party, muckrakers, Ida M. Tarbell	Exposure of corruption in the press
4. Movement for industrial efficiency	Frederick Winslow Taylor, Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford	Ford Assembly line, Five dollar day
5. Movement to protect workers	National Child Labor Committee, Louis Brandeis, Florence Kelley, Josephine Goldmark	Keating-Owen Act, state child-labor laws, Muller v. Oregon, Bunting v. Oregon, workers’ compensation laws
Political Reforms	People and Groups Involved	Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc.)
6. Movement to reform local government	Hazen Pingree, Tom Johnson	Commission and council-manager forms of govt. adopted, the property tax, public ownership of utilities, and other economic reforms
7. State reform of big business	Robert M. La Follette, Charles B. Aycock, Albert B. Cummins, Joseph M. Folk	WI laws regulating RRs
8. Movement for election reform	William S. U’Ren	States adopted the secret ballot, initiative, referendum, recall, and direct primary, 17^th Amendment