Main Themes 1. How progressivism was a reaction to the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the United States in the late nineteenth century. 2. That all progressives shared an optimistic vision that an active government and human intervention could solve problems and create an efficient, ordered society. 3. That progressives wanted to reduce the influence of party machines on politics. 4. How the temperance, immigration-restriction, and women's suffrage movements took on crusade like aspects.
| Learning Objectives A thorough study of Chapter Twenty-One should enable the student to understand: |
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The origins and varieties of the progressive impulse. |
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The social justice reforms of the period, and the role of the church in carrying out the Social Gospel. |
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The progressive emphasis on scientific expertise, organizational reform, and professionalism. |
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The role of women and women's organizations in promoting reform. |
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The significance of the women's suffrage movement. |
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The desire of the progressives to limit the role of political party organizations, and the measures they advocated to accomplish this goal. |
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The temperance movement and its relationship to other progressive reforms. |
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The origins of the NAACP and the importance of W. E. B. DuBois. |
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The movement to restrict immigration and how restricting immigration was regarded as a reform. |
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The alternate approaches to the problems of the trusts: socialism, regulation, or trust busting. |