Answer:
Terms and Names
progressive movement Social reform movement in the early 20th century
Florence Kelley Social reformer
prohibition Making the sale or use of alcohol illegal
muckraker Writer who exposes wrongdoing
scientific management Using scientific ideas to make work more efficient
Robert M. LaFollette Progressive Wisconsin governor and senator
initiative A way for people to propose laws directly
referendum A way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote
recall A vote on whether to remove a public official from office
Seventeenth Amendment Amendment providing for senators to be elected directly
Explanation:FOUR GOALS OF PROGRESSIVISM
(Pages 306–309)
What did reformers want?
As the 1900s opened, reformers pushed
for a number of changes. Together their
efforts built the progressive movement.
The progressive movement had four major
goals: (1) to protect social welfare, (2) to
promote moral improvement, (3) to create
economic reform, and (4) to foster
efficiency.
Reformers tried to promote social
welfare by easing the problems of city life.
The YMCA built libraries and exercise
rooms. The Salvation Army fed poor
people in the cities and cared for children
in nurseries. Settlement houses helped
families. One reformer, Florence Kelley,
helped to win the passage of the Illinois
Factory Act in 1893. The law prohibited
child labor and limited women’s working
hours. The law became a model for other
states.
Reformers promoted moral reform by
working for prohibition—the banning of
alcoholic drinks. Many of these reformers,
called prohibitionists, were members of
the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
(WCTU). The well-organized union
became the largest women’s group the
country had ever seen.
Reformers tried to make economic
changes by pointing out the great
inequality between the rich and the poor.
