Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Progressives

The term progressivism Is derived from people looking to make progress In the industrial age for the notion of a better life Progressives wanted To Limit the power of big business Improve democracy Strengthen social justice Origins of progressivism The era began with a new young president named teddy Roosevelt It ended when public attention was diverted away from social issues with the start of WWW Attitudes and motives Going into the turn of the century there were already great issues among the migration of new people.The large gap between rich and poor. Jim crow laws. And women's suffrage added a great amount of fuel to the fire. People felt that the government was the correct vehicle to transport their Idea of social reform Churches were middle class people were the ones who really wanted reform. They were the doctors and the lawyers of the day.People such as Walter Reassurances advocated and used gospel to convey their message of helping the poor and reducing prejudice. Roosevelt for republican and Wilson for democrat favored public progressivism They believe in a guess and check system until the populous found a solution to the robber Scientific management was also and new idea advocated and invented by Frederick w. Taylor. Ender this Frederick Taylor timed a factory with a stop watch then took each section and devised a solution to make it run more effectively The Muckrakers Teddy referred to the investigative Journalists as much rakes (the Jungle was a popular one and brought the atrocities in meatpacking plants to the public eye) Ida Darrell rang a bell on standard oil Her dad was an owned an OLL refinery In which Rockefeller ran out of business.

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