ANOTHER AGE OF REFORM Objective: To define progressivism and identify how it manifested itself on the local & state level by looking at the goals & actions.
1 Progressive Era 1900-1916 Expose the ills of society brought on by the Industrial Revolution and Big Government –urbanization –social disorder (labor)
The Progressive Impulse Who were the Progressives? –“A mov’t so broad gauged it almost defies definition” –a reform movement that sought new responses.
Progressive Era 1890 - 1920. Roots of Progressivism Populists Social Gospel Settlement Houses Hull House in Chicago.
ANOTHER AGE OF REFORM
Ch. 21: The Progressive Era, 1900-1917