The Progressive Reform Era (1890-1920)
Four Goals
1. Protecting social welfare- helping poor. lot of poor people and wanted to help the middle and lower class people.
2. Promoting moral improvement- alcohol is what caused men to cheat and beat their wives. they wouldn't go to work and caused crime. So they decided to ban alcohol to try to stop those problems.
3. Creating economic reform- Capitalism-economic system. People own most businesses. Rich get most money. Top 1% control about 90% of the money. In order to keep capitalism, the US allowed socialism in some places. Now we are a mixed economy. Karl Marx- believed people should all make the same amount of money. Communism started in the 1890.
4. Fostering efficiency- better efficiency in the workplace. better assembly lines, technology. Better pay. Ford idea- employees were paid better so they wouldn't quit as much and would work harder.
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