Progressivism and WWI Flashcards
progressivism
society capable of improvement didn’t like natural laws, laissez faire, or social darwinism
Reform impulses
antimonopoly-breakup/ regulate trusts
social cohesion-individuals are part of a great web of social relations
knowledge- apply knowledge to society
muckrakers
journalists who directed public attention toward social, economic, and political injustice, commited o exposing scandal, corruption, injustice,
Targets: Trusts and Railroads
helped inspire americans to take action
Charles Francis Adams Jr.
uncovered corruption among the railroad barons
Ida Tarbell
muckracker studied Standard Oil trust
Lincoln Steffens
muckracker reporter for McClures magazine wrote the Shame of the Cities portarits of “machine governemnt” and “boss rule” studied moral outrage helped arouse for refrom
social justice
justice that goes beyond the individual, seeking justice for sociaty as a whole( support egaltarian society and poor and oppressed people?
social gospel
redeeming the nations cities
applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as wealth perceived as excessive, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war
Walter Rauschenbush
protestant theologian published influnetial ideas for human salvation thru christian reform believed all individual should work together to ensure a humanitarian evolution of the social fabric
Father John A Ryan
worked to expand scope of catholic social welfare organizations
social darwinism
survival of the fittest
Jacob Riis
exposed immigrant neighborhoods with photos
settlement house
immigrant homes that helped immigrants settle and adapt to to the language plus customs, staffed by members of educated middle class college women iportant participants, social workers began to appear in universities because of settlement houses
Hull House
1889 Chicago settlement house by Jane Addams model for many, staffed by members of educated middle class
Thorstein Veblem
proposed a new economic system in which power would reside in the hands of highly trained engineers
a new middle class
new professional jobs ex. managers, technicians, accountanats workers etc, cities required commercial, medical, legal, educational services valued education
American Medical Association(AMA)
called for strict, scientific standards for admission to the practice of medicin with doctors as standards
National Association of Manufactures and States Chamber of Commerce(1912)
1895 like the AMA for busisness
National Farm Bureau Federation
netwrok of agricultural organizations designed to spread scientific farming methods
Women in wrokplace
felt that women needed to be protcted so the ony jobs available were settlement houses, social work, teaching, nursing
“new women”-reasons for women in workplace
income came from factory not home, children began school earlier, home no longer an all consuming place, technological improvemnts made housewrok easier,declining family size
Lillian Wald
helped with settlement house
Frances Willard
temperance movement
Anna Howard Shay`
suffrage movement`