Progressive Reform Era 1890-1920
progressives were all about progress
4 Goals of Progressivism
1. protecting social welfare
2. Promoting moral improvement-men drank a lot alcohol, caused them to beat wives, caused most of crime in society. Women wanted alcohol to be banned.
3. Creating economic reform-trying to change how the economy is run, to some degree. problem of capitalism (people own businesses) all the rich people control the money. Today U.S. is a mixed economy (part socialism and part capitalism)
4. Fostering efficiency-better efficiency in the workplace. Pay workers better, so they will work harder.
We received our assigned blog topics. Mine are
Temperance Movement-18th Amenment
Muckrakers-Upton Sinclair
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