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What was happening in The Progressive Era? |
Early 20th century reform movement, seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life. Progressive reformers shared the following goals: 1. Protecting social welfare 2. Promoting moral improvement 3. Creating Economic reform 4. Fostering efficiency. |
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What was the goals of the progressive movement-protecting Social Welfare? |
1. Reducing the impact of the harsh conditions brought about by industrialization 2. Valuing and protecting human life and well being Ex: a.Social gospel/settlement house movements: helping the poor through community centers, social services and churches b. YMCA: libraries, recreations pools, handball courtsc. Salvation Army- soup kitchens, child care |
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What was the goals of the progressive movement-Economic Reform? |
1. Changing the uneven balance of wealth between big business, government and ordinary people under capitalism Ex: a.Eugene Debs helped organize the American Socialist Party b. Journalists exposing unfair business practices, exploiting child labor, government corruption c. Minimum wage laws (state laws) |
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What was the goals of the progressive movement-Promoting Moral Improvement? |
1. Improving the lives of the poor by improving their personal behavior EX: a. prohibition- banning alcoholic beverages b. Women's Christian Temperance Movement (WTCU-1874)urged saloon keepers to stop selling alcohol opened kindegartens for immigrants |
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What was the goals of the progressive movement-Economic efficiency? |
1. Use scientific principles to make society and the workplace more efficient
EX: a. Louis Brandeis used data showing the high cost of long working hours to defend a law limiting women's work hours.b. Time and motion studies, improving efficiency c. Ford's 8 hours and $5 a day |
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Buck v. Bell |
(1927), was the United States Supreme Court ruling that upheld a statute instituting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the mentally retarded, "for the protection and health of the state." It was largely seen as an endorsement of negative eugenics—the attempt to improve the human race by eliminating "defectives" from the gene pool. |
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
Fought for African American rights. Helped to found Niagra Movement in 1905 to fight for and establish equal rights. This movement later led to the establishment of the NAACP.
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Clifford Beers |
The mental hygiene movement began when a former mental patient, Clifford Beers, voiced his distress at his treatment over three years in mental hospitals (in his book The Mind That Found Itself)
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Continued shift of population and immigration in this period resulted in |
Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924, more than 19 million immigrants entered the United States,
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Important changes in Social Welfare in early 1900 |
1. Settlement house workers were ambivalent about joining the profession of social work 2. diagnosis and casework method 3. bureaucratization and the use of scientific management techniques created new organizational structures and processes for accountability in the profession 4. welfare became increasingly a business issue, |
