Progressive
Era
1890s
to 1917
Nature
of progressive movement
Reform impulse – “status revolution,” convergence of
old and new reform movements
Experts
Urban
Government action
“The people v. the interest”
Optimisms
Education
Contradictions
Areas
of Reform
Trust
Working conditions – women and children
Urban conditions
Good government
Muckrakers
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Role
of women
Temperance
movement
W.C.T.U., 1874
Francis Willard
Anti-Saloon League, 1893
18th Amendment
Settlement
House Movement
Jane Addams & Ellen Gates Star, Hall House, 1888
Toynbee Hall
Social housekeeping
Government
was the solution
From local to federal
Park movement
Direct primary
Strong mayor and City manager systems
“Water socialism”