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At the start of the Progressive Movement there were main four goals, but in the end we accomplished more than that.
Progressive Movement
Protecting social welfare was one of the orignal goals. YMCA, Salvation Army, and other programs helped with correcting this issue.
Women were now offered college. So they would go to school, then get involed in the rights movement to better the lifes of the children, and themselfs. They passed Prohibition, & went for the Anti-Sallon Act.
After, The Jungle, was published people became conserned with the meat they were eating. Soon afterwards meat had to be inspected, & still is to this day.
William Taff busted 90 trust in his four year term, but never got much apperciation for his hard work.
For fostering efficenty, Henry Ford started the Ford assembly line, to accomplish more work in less time, and eventually almost all companies morved to that technique. Today its still one of the most efficentent ways to accomplish a goal.
President, Woodrow Willson, thought the best way to get rid of monopolies was to give the common people of America more power than the power the " big bussiness'." Which was the purpose of the Clayton Antitrust Act; it was basically to enforce the Shjerman Antitrust Act.
Roosevelt fought for equal rights for african americans, the wilson also followed up on this subject. In 1912 Wilson got the support of the NAACP. Once he was acutally president he said that race crimes fell under state not federal rule, and while he was in office, federal offices went from unsegerated back to segerated. Therefor he didn't back what he promised and lost the NAACP's support.
Carrie Chapman Catt served as the president for the NAWSA nummerous times. She had five tactics she focused on. 1) painstaking organization 2)close ties between local, state, & national workers 3) establishing a wide base of support 4)cautious lobbying 5) gracious, ladylike behavior
The Muckrakers were like spies for the news paper. They would go in where ever they wanted pretending to be intrested in something completley different than what they were after. Once they left they would go write their story with an inside real version of the story. Americans relied on their articles to be truly informed.
