The 4 goals of the Progressive Era were; protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform. The purpose of all these goals were to correct injustices in American life, and restore economic opportunities, and return control of the government to the people. To me the most important goal is promoting moral improvement, because if anyone has a good morals you can improve people. You can improve people's morals also to get more encouragement for the greater good of people. People wanted to move to socialism because the current situations that were occurring with the great wage gap between workers and factory owners. I believe that the move would have been very bad, because that would give economy control all to the…
Progressivism was a political movement in the United States during the ninetieth century to change the social and economic problems within society. The people believed the United States government should be more active about solving society’s problems. Industrialization and urbanization created many of these problems. These included, but were not limited to, poverty of working class and the filth and crime of urban society. Progressive leaders worked as journalists, social workers, educators, politicians, and members of the clergy. Unregulated market and economy were favored by the leaders of progressivism. Before government could fix social problems, government itself needed to be fixed.…
Progressivism generated positive results. If one thinks of progressives as one group of people with one clear objective, then they succeeded. But, consider the word “progressives” as a general term that encompasses these assorted clusters unfairly, because it defines these groups as one. The progressives’ diverse and opposing views break up the previously described group into separate sets of individuals trying to achieve the same goals, in a different way. Because these groups did not agree on how to achieve things in one way, the “progressives” never met some objectives because their contradicting methods resulted in the opposite result. How could every one of these groups do what they set out to? No, they could not possibly have done so.…
First organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." - The purpose of the WCTU was to create a pure world by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity…
At the turn of the 20th century, the toll that years of injustices took on American minority groups rose to a breaking point. The plethora of new technology which arrived post-civil war led to many unaddressed socioeconomic issues (“Progressive Movement.”), which caused many discontent individuals to unite to form malcontent groups. Known as the Progressive Era, the first 20 or so years of the century consisted of movements led primarily by working class citizens, african-americans, and women. The various organizations they formed had a “wide range of positions and goals” (“Progressive Movement.”), but were generally united in their desire for obtaining their inalienable rights. Among the leaders of these groups was Margaret Sanger, an…
The Progressives were led by religious leaders such as Charles Parkhurst, a Protestant Reverend who urged for more “protest” from the Protestants. The Progressive Era united various anti-vice crusaders such as the Anti-Cigarette League, the American Purity Alliance, and the Anti-Saloon League. These groups were already united with many other issues such as labor rights, women’s rights, minimum wage laws, etc. Thus, in 1900, a reform group known as the “New York Committee of Fifteen” conducted undercover investigations and released their first report with the title “The Social Evil.” A similar group with ties to the New York Anti-Saloon League, known as the “Committee of Fourteen,” did a comparable investigation of prostitution three years…
The gilded age had many problems that made people to push to an era with little or no social and political problems. Some of the problems of the gilded age included; the economic retardation of the southern parts of the States, the African-Americans of the south being denied power to take part in political activities, and racism. The problems prevailed after two nationwide panics affected the growth in this period. The gilded period had two noticeable divisions: the Mugwumps who were extremely rich and had no support from most people because they considered elitists (Kunitz, 1974). The other group was the agrarian laborers who lacked power and their movements could not succeed. In the progressive era, the reformers built a coalition, which combined the Mugwumps and the labor unionists. Because of the combination, the coalition was less focused. There were conflicts in the coalitions that led to compromises, little disagreements, and little solutions to the problems (Jeff,…
Imperialism is defined as the policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political domination over other nations. Throughout the time period many people considered Imperialism as another way of reform and Progression. Economics, the military, and the countries nationalism were all ready for the change. This idea of expanding was called the New Manifest Destiny. At this time period, Imperialism was getting very popular, and many began to think that the more land a country annexed, the more powerful it was. Expansionists believed that European countries were already rapidly growing spreading across the globe. Also, they saw that if Americans did not join the imperialism rule, it would end up missing out on power, and may be considered a weaker nation. Imperialism was needed for economic gain and America urgently needed foreign trade, especially with China at this time period. In addition, The United States was considered to be a great empire and by not showing their strength and power they might be envisioned as a weak nation. At the same rate, many Americans also saw that if the United States started to take other countries by force, it would go against the ideals of our own country. If economic growth occurred, we would need to build and protect our new empires, and this could very easily be a problem. Three presidents at this time period were very influential in their progressive views. One of these was Theodore Roosevelt. "Speak softly and carry a big stick", a quote by Roosevelt himself, expresses his "Big-stick" diplomacy, stating that the threat of military force would be used to influence politics in other countries. Next, Taft's dollar diplomacy states that money can influence decision-making and that America should expand and invest out of the country. Finally, Wilson believed that Americans should spread the beliefs of human rights, democracy, and word…
“No Southern woman with a proper self-respect would now accept an invitation to the White House.” Scimitar…
The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era were 50 years in which a large wealth gap between the rich and poor increased dramatically and needed a solution, similar to our nation’s situation today. Big corporations in major cities were able to take advantage of a surplus of those in the working class and technological advancements, leading to a select few holding the majority of fortune. There were many resolutions to this gap in wealth coming from powerful people, like Andrew Carnegie, William Sumner, and progressive reformers like Alva Belmont, yet even with successes by the progressive trade unionists and socialists, the end result was inadequate. Due to corruption within the political system and disconnect between those trying to help and those…
The reconstruction was followed by the civil war and took place in the southern states. The reconstruction was an attempt of bringing in confederate states back into the union. Amendments were added to the constitution to protect black people in the south. This was important because they were trying to make the south safe for the blacks.…
-The progressives comprised of individuals within the progressive era that championed for societal changes necessary in eliminating the existent societal injustices (Dyck et al., 2013: NWHM, 2013: Novak, 2010).…
There was many good things that came from the progressive era, thanks to Roosevelt we have safe food and medicine. The trust were broken down, no one cooperation could hold a monopoly. Big business was on the way out, and more rights were to be given to the people. Women were given the right to vote, but at the same time the blacks lost their rights in the south. The text states "The progressive era also witnessed numerous restrictions on democratic participation." (P122) While more freedoms was the theme of the progressive movement, it limited said freedoms to those of education and wealth. "The progressive movement represented a significant reversal of the idea that voting was an inherent right of American citizenship" (p123).…
In one day, I became a Philanthropist. The 1890’s to the 1920’s is know as the Progressive Period. In this time the average poverty level for a family of six is $600, and the average earning of American worker is less than $500. During this period three presidents served, President Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. These three presidents made many changes but made little to no change in racial segregation and to labor unions. At your bed side you asked me to put a million dollars, your entire life savings, into three professional reforms. The way I will spend the one million dollars is, 600,000 dollars in food safety,300,000 child labor dollars in, and 100,000 dollars in woman's suffrage.…
Mark A. Largent is the author this article about the eugenics sterilization in Oregon from 1909 to 1983. He stated the cause for the eugenics idea and he stated how Oregon passed a eugenics based idea into law. His thesis statement is, “From 1917 to 1983, Oregon's prison and mental health authorities sterilized about 2,500 people, including 217 sterilizations after 1967,” and it is found this at the end of the article in the conclusion. Eugenics is the idea of, “Applying knowledge from evolutionary biology and genetics to human reproduction, advocates of eugenics attempted to direct human evolution to create a safer, saner, and more productive society.…
