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Progressive Movement Flashcards

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Progressive Movement

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-Early 1900s
-Middle class dwellers (teachers, writes, and lawyers)
-Wanted the government to take control and solve some of society’s problems
-Promote social welfare (settlement house movements, YMCA, Salvation Army)
-Promote moral improvement (prohibition)
-Creating economic reform (turn away from laissez-faire)
-Muckrakers: journalists that expose corruption (Ida M. Tarbell, Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Jacob Riis)
-Fostering efficiency, scientific management, and improve efficiency

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