progressive era

Question 1

beginners of progressivism

Answer 1

middle class professionals
benefit from industrialism
aiming for controlled capitlaism
get things done
progressives make law happen for direct election of senators
expose undersides of industrialism
muckrakers- tarbell, sinclair, riis
-mid class reading this
response to industrial chaos

Question 2

characteristics

Answer 2

wealthy, educated, mostly white, professional, deeply religious, reformis, christians
often women

Question 3

4 major agendas

Answer 3

political reform
scientific efficiency
economic reform
social justice

Question 4

political reform

Answer 4

want honest government
want city council
hate tammany hall
want civil services exam- test you have to take if you want a government job

Question 5

economic reform

Answer 5

too much wealth in too few hands

need government to regulate it

Question 6

social justice

Answer 6

want to help poorer classes but they’re scared of them
want to improve their situation
african-american progressive movement
the social gospel

Question 7

the social gospel- WWJD

Answer 7

christ wants us to help them
charles sheldon and IN HIS STEPS
created WWJD
for the next year, ask ourselves WWJD- he would be middle class reformer
stop advertising alcohol
treat workers better

Question 8

settlement house- hull house

Answer 8

Jane Addams and Ellen Starr
staffed y middle class women
located in tenement neighborhoods
offer classes in all areas
they would badger the city government to do things
reformers want to turn you into them
-white middle class protestant women
-teach them to bathe, clean house, etc.
Launching pads for campaigns aimed at improving living and working conditions for urban poor
Civic housekeeping- protect households from chaos of industrialization only by attacking the source at large

Question 9

muckrakers

Answer 9

• Mags exposed corruption in government and the shady operations of big business
• Ida Tarbell- revealed dishonest bus practices of Rockefeller family’s Standard Oil Co.
• Ida B. Wells- wrote about pamphlets condemning the lynching of blacks
• Steffens- machine bosses

Question 10

Teddy R.

Answer 10

white, wealthy, educated, elite
he likes everything big and epic
aggressive attacks on certain monopolies
becomes more friendly to unions even though government is anti-union
sides with miners in strike in 1902

Question 11

conservation

Answer 11

environmentalism
concerned about industrialism because it can not only hurt people, but also nature
cutting timber, soil erosion, treating natural resources like crap
must do something about this
need scientifically trained people
need nice places to got relax
national parks system- 12 national parks brought into being by Teddy R.