still testing today, working on our Chapter 9 Project.
four goals of the progressives:
• protecting social welfare: worked to soften some of the harsh conditions of industrialization. the YMCA opened libraries, sponsored classes and built swimmung pools and handball courts. salvation army fed poor people.
• promoting moral improvement: women wanted to ban all alcoholic beverages (prohibition) in order to improve people's lives. Carry Nation wored for the prohibition by walking into saloons, yelling at customers, and destroying bottles of liquor.
• creating economic reform
• fostering efficiency
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