Progressive Pictures
Madi Puleo
Protecting Social Welfare
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army started during the Progressive Era to promote social welfare. It provided food programs and educations in temperance and hard work. The Salvation Army is still around today and they still help people. This picture is of a women named Amelia who was the first Salvation Army bell ringer. This is a good heading for this section because it is something that left a lasting impact on people. The Salvation Army is still around today and they continue to help the less fortunate.
http://www.salvationarmyexpectchange.org/2012/12/12/amelias-story-of-the-first-salvation-army-bellringer/Child Labor
Child Labor was a big part of Social Welfare. During the Progressive Era people moved to help those who needed it. Children were working long hours with little pay and poor working conditions. This was not okay and people started to make change. People like Florence Kelley and labor unions worked on helping the children.
Florence Kelley
Florence Kelley worked to help women and children that worked. At the time both women and children had many hours but would be paid significantly less than men who did less or equal jobs. She worked to eventually create the Illinois Factory Act in 1893. This act prohibited child labor and limited women's hours.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/kelley.htmlPromoting Moral Improvement
Carrie Nation
This is a picture of Carrie Nation, a women who felt strong about temperance. She started a branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Kansas. Women in this union would march all around singing, praying, and urging people to stop drinking and selling alcohol. She had a major role in protecting moral improvement.
http://missouriwomen.org/category/women/carrie-nation/WCTU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman's_Christian_Temperance_Union
Woman's Suffrage
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/essays/progressive-era-new-era-1900-1929
Creating Economic Reform
Economic Panic of 1893
The Economic Panic of 1893 really started the want to create economic reform. The Economic Panic made people rethink the distribution of wealth in a capitalist system. People thought that Big businesses got better treatment from the government and used the power given from the government to beat out the competition.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_goldlost_2_e.htmlMuckrakers
Muckrakers were a big part of economic reform. The name muckrakers got their name because a character in a book raked muck instead of looking up to heaven just like the people writing these stories do. The showed the real corruption in businesses and public life that people really hadn't noticed before. For example, The Jungle was a story made to show what really goes on in the meat packing industry.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/42b.aspEugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs tried to help the American Socialist Party in 1901. He ran for president in the Socialist Party. It was seen as the most dynamic presidential election of all times. He served a big part of economic reforms in the Progressive Era.
http://debsfoundation.org/personalhistory.htmlFostering Efficiency
Brandeis Brief
The "Brandeis Brief" was created by Louis Brandeis. He was a lawyer who didn't really pay attention to the legal argument. He focused more on the data behind an argument. This became a popular form for reform litigation later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandeis_BriefFord's Assembly Line
The Assembly Line fostered efficiency. During the Progressive Era people were trying to find new ways that would make the work be done faster. The Assembly Line used all the workers to create the machine.
http://www.delanceyplace.com/view_archives.php?2249Taylorism
This picture shows Taylorism. Taylorism is another name for scientific management. This theory says that if you study how long it takes for workers to do something you can find their efficiency in comparison to the time it takes them to do it. This was a big improvement during the Progressive Era.
http://thecharnelhouse.org/2011/12/07/the-ultra-taylorist-soviet-utopianism-of-aleksei-gastev-including-gastevs-landmark-book-how-to-work%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C/