Here are the four primary goals of progressivism. Describe each of the goals and give a specific accomplishment of each.
Check out this photo gallery of child labor during the late 1800's early 1900's.
Pick one picture and relate it to Progressive refrom.
26 comments:
Linda Thao
Hour 2-2
03/4/09
The picture--upper middle photo under Group portrait--demonstrates hard working children, waiting in the cold to work the night shift. They work 12 hours a day from 6pm to 6am earning up to 85 cent a night. People notice many children were working in industries and other low paying jobs. The long hours, little pay, and under age workers lead into the Progressive reform in America. It led into a social justice movements for child labor. People wanted to end the suffering of children. Parents wanted their kids to receive an education for a better future.The Child Labor Act 1916 and Revenue Act of 1919 became unconstitutional under the supreme court.
People protested to end child "slavery" and many campaign to earn equal rights for children.
In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was passed. Which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. It finally put an end to child labor and today, the FLSA is still enforce up to this day.
In the early 20th century there was a group of people who worked to gain a fully Democratic society in which the people were in control, not the government. The Progressives wanted a government that would efficiently help the public rather than just turn a blind eye. Simailar to the muckruckers they wanted to take the large industries like Andrew Carnegie that always mistreated the immigrant workers. The Progressive movement answered questions such as: How would the new immigrants survive in America or How could the undefeatable power of the different industries be controlled by the public. The presidents of the Progresive time period joined in the fight to control the industries that were all started bacause of industrialization.
In the picture above seems to be a group of children who are during child labor of the 20th century. These children worked in factories 12-14 hours with the same minimal breaks. Not only were these children subject to long hours, but also, they were in horrible conditions. Large, heavy, and dangerous equipment. The wages are low maybe around 80 cents not even that. ITS TERRIBLE!! It was even to a point where children under the ages of six years old worked with no pay at all. This all eventually led into a social movement. Adults were very uncomfortable sending there children to these horrible factories to work and wanted to change it, they would rather walk them to the bus stops and get a naughty note from the music teahcher.
Well, the first step to improving conditions was in 1833 with the Factory Act passed by Parliament. This limited the amount of hours children of certain ages could work. Another act that aided for the children is when the Activists in the U.S. made the government set up the Children's Bureau in 1912. This made it the U.S. government's responsibility to monitor child labor. Later following behind was The Child Labor Act 1916 along with the Revenue Act in 1919.
I guess you can say Child Labor or "child slavery" has come to an end but theres no definite sure because there is a possibility there is more in many other economies....
The pictures show the conditions of the factories that the children worked in. They worked long hours with little pay and they even had injures from the work they were doing. So social groups attacked the government so laws could be passed. Now the working conditions aren't so bad but you still have to be about 16 to get a job. Most jobs don't even want you if you don't have experience. The laws we have now are to harsh. I feel today if you want a job at the age of 15 it should be okay for you to work. Its not like then when there were 10 year olds working with heavy duty machines. Now with such a demand for money why can't you work? In the early 19th century it was okay to work at the age of 8 until kids started losing limbs. I think some of the laws today need to be loosened.
Kiah Johnson
Hour 2
The picture of the four girls that is on the blog site represents kids in the working industry during the industrial revolution. There were so many girls, like these, that had to work in order to support their families. The horrible thing about it was that work took the place of these girls' educations. The girls look stressed an unhappy which shows the toll that these factory jobs took on some of the kids. People fought to get kids out of factories and into classrooms.
The picture of the two little boys working at the textile mill was also another harsh reality at the time. Young kids were put to work at these dangerous machines, and often times they got injured. They would loose a finger, or be physically injured to the point that they could not longer work. People in these situations were basically stuck.
This is why people in the progressive movement fought for worker compensation. So that people who worked in these factories that were injured could still receive pay and medical care.
Juan Garcia
Hr3-4
The picture shows how children had to worl long hours in very bad work conditions. They would only get paid about 85 cents a day, for all that hard work. This lead to the Progressive reform in America. It lead to social justice movement for child labor. Parents wanted their children to have a better future and be educated instead of working in factories like they did.
Lovell Morris
Hour 3-4
The progessive era was aig deal in the early 20th century. Some goals that were trying to reached was Democracy, which was to make government more responsive to the people. An example was the reform Recall which said that public officals could be voted out of office. Another goal was Efficiency, which was to make governments better able to serve the people's needs. An example of that was the Movements to eliminate governmental corruption, which said that machine politicians and urban political bosses corrupted the government. Regulation of Large Corporations and Monopolies was another goal from the progessive era it was that once a business got to big government was to break it down, this was shown in the trust busting reform. The last goal that was to be reached was Social Justice that stated both private and governmental action to help people in need. A reform about that was The enactment of child labor laws which talked about how children sholdn't be at work all day but also to go to school.
The pictures are of children working. They worked 12hr days to get paid at most 85cents, most times, they worked in the worst of conditions. THis right here is what led to Social Justice with the Child Labor Act 1916.
One goal of porgressivism was Democracy, which stressed the need to make government in the United States focus on the voices of the people of America. An accomplishment of this goal would be women gaining the right to vote
This was achieved in 1920 when th 19th admendment was added to the United States Constitution
A second goal was efficiency which stressed to make the government better in terms of serving the needs of the people by making the government more organized and efficacious. An acoomplishment of this goal was making the government less corrupt by eliminating the power out of the hands of elected officials and placing it in the hands of professional administrators
A third goal was the regulation of large corporations and monopolies which anticpated that by regulating large corporations, taht it would liberate human energy from the restrictions caused by industrial capitalism.
An acomplishment would be the idea of trust-busting.
The fourth goal was Social Justice
in which they suppoted the private and governmental involvement in helping people in need. Some acomplishments include the development of social workers, the passing of child-labor laws, the eight-hour work day, and workman's compensation laws.
The main picture I picked was the picture of the Little girl who seems to be standing in a factory.The pictures of the children workin in the industries reminded me alot of the story Lyddie. These pictures showed how many children in the progressive era were basically forced into in order for families to survive.The lack of quality working conditions,unbearable treatment and ridiculous hours/wages caused for a reform.Besides the working conditions these children were way underage and should've been under better conditions.Due to these unbearable condition there were many activists and people protesting for change in the 19 century which lead to many progressive reforms.
Lauryn Beecher
Hour 3/4
03/08/09
Democracy- Progressives wanted to reform our government to make it more democratic. They wanted the people to have a say, and to be heard. They did this through reforms where the people, including women, had more voting rights.
Efficiency- They sought to make the government more efficient. They wanted a well-organized system that didn’t have wasteful spending or corrupt officials. Progressives wanted to centralize the government, even though this tended to take power away from the people.
Regulation of Large Corporations and Monopolies- Progressive tried to work for the good of society, even though they were unable to agree on how to regulate large companies and monopolies. Trust-busting and Regulation by the government were more popular than Socialism and Laissez-Faire ideas.
Social Justice – Part of making society better for all included helping those with the greatest need. Progressives believed that funding for helping these people should come from both private and government sources. They formed child labor laws, and worked for child and workers rights. They also prohibited alcohol by law, believing that it limited society’s chance of advancement.
There is a picture of a young girl standing in a cotton mill. According to the source there were ten other children about here size working there. Although she knows she isn’t old enough to work there she does. Her boss claims that she just “happened in.” There were many children just like here working in mills. Progressives were able to enact child labor laws. These laws prevented children overworking in mills and other industries. These laws were enacted to allow children the opportunity of education. This in turn would liberate them and help to further advance society.
Progressivism
Progressivism, more a reform than an actual organized movement was an idea to advance mankind during the twentieth century. Progressives worked in four different areas to reform America.
One of these areas they tried to reform in was Democracy. Progressives believed if citizens participated in laws for institutions, then institutions would help the citizens. By allowing citizens to take part in laws, women suffrage -allowing women the right to vote was granted in the U.S Constitution when the nineteenth amendment was added in 1920.
Progressives also succeeded in reforming in the area of efficiency -allowing operations and services of the government to be more equal and fair and run more smoothly. This was often at an opposition with democracy because progressives wanted to have an administration of leaders but that took away from the "voice of the people". An achievement progressives made in the area of efficiency was a centralized decision making process where there was a government at every level -Federal, State , etc.- to avoid overlapping of authorities and to develop budgets that helped them rather than hurt them.
A third area Progressives reformed in was regulating large corporations and monopolies. Progressives wanted to free humans from restrictions placed on them from industrialization and capitalism. Though this approach was less popular, some progressives took a laissez-faire attitude. One of their achievements was the National Recovery Act of 1933. It was an attempt to correct the economy where employees could organize and bargain and where they could be free from interference of any kind.
One of the last areas Progressives attempted to reform in was social justice –action taken from private and governmental resources to help those in need. One of the areas they focused on was child labor. Progressives believed children should be protected from working in the industry and should be involved in education and extra-curricular activities. One of the achievements was the Smith-Hughes Act, passed in 1917 which gave one million dollars to states that provided educational programs so that children would not be involved with work.
Faces of Lost Youth
The picture of the young twelve year old boy who cannot read or write and has no time because he works all day relates to progressive reform in social justice. Child labor laws would help this boy get an education. Child labor laws would allow this child to be protected and not entangled in the physical work that was expected from children during the industrialization period.
Regina Simmons
March 8, 2009
AP Us History Hour 2
Mr. Fons
The Democracy area of progressivism was a way progressives used institutional reforms which included: initiative referendum, recall, secret ballot, direct primary, direct election of U.S. Senators, and Women's Suffrage; that helped include the Americans’ voice. An accomplishment of Progressivism was the addition of the 19th amendment which prohibits states from denying any citizen the right to vote because of their sex.
The Efficiency area of progressivism was a way to make governmental operations and services better for American citizens. This included elite, professional administrators, centralization of decision making process, and movements to eliminate governmental corruption. Though this was designed to help the American people it actually clashed with the democracy area of progressivism. An accomplishment of the area of efficiency was the direct election of senators.
The Regulation of large corporations and monopolies was to help free human energies (labor force) from the restrictions of industrial capitalism. The Clayton act and the Workman’s compensation were accomplishments of this area of progressivism. Examples of solutions that progressives disagreed over to help regulate large corporations were laissez-faire, trust-busting, regulation, and socialism.
The Social justice area of progressivism was where progressives supported both private and governmental action to help people in need. An accomplishment of this would be that credit was made available for farmers at low rates of interest and also child labor laws were made. Some of the reforms of this area were development of professional social workers, the building of settlement houses, the enactment of child labor laws, support for the goals of organized labor, and prohibition laws. Standard living houses were made, laws for children so that they would not over work were made, and other goals like eight-hour days were supported.
The picture I chose was of three boys who look under 14, with the boy in the middle having a cigar in his mouth. The way the picture is related to progressive reform is of the workman’s compensation, of child labor laws and the goal of and eight-hour day. The picture shows how children who should be in school, work; not knowing how long they've worked or how tired they are. With these reforms listed the children would be able for schooling and be able to just live as a child.
The photo of the little boys working in the factory clearly shows the conditions the Progressive era reformers wanted to change. They had no shoes. They weren't in school where most boys their age, seven or eight, should be. The factory they were in was dark and not well ventilated. The progressive reformers worked to change all these things. They organized programs that supported children going to school. Programs to provide proper clothing and footwear for children. The progressive era was an era that sought to promote humanities that some people would think are common knowledge.
Adriana Thomas
Hr. 3-4
The four primary goals of progressivism are regulation of large corporations, democracy, efficiency and social justice. Regulation of large corporations was done in order to stop the very large companies from monopolizing their fields of work. This caused prices to be lowered and overall the consumer was much happier. Democracy is letting the voice of the people take part in the ruling of the country, while efficiency was the idea of creating an efficient well-organized government system in order to avoid mistakes and dishonesty.
Social justice specialized in improving the social life of citizens. They created many laws in order to keep people safe and well defended.
One of the pictures i looked at showed a little girl standing in what seemed to be a cotton mill. She seemed to be way to young to work there and progressives would not stand for things like this. All over there ere young children doing jobs fit for strong older men. The child labor act made the work of children illegal because they understood the horrible things that were happeneing to theses children. They were being under paid and over worked, and in many cases they were dieing or losings body parts due to the work they did. The labor law allowed children to be able to attend school and gain the nessecary education to prosper later in life.
Misael Garcia
Hour 9
March 8 2009
The picture i have choosen was the picture of the 4 young girls outside waiting to go into work. This demonstrates how children had to undergo hard struggles in order to help support their famalies. Children at our age even younger had to work almost 12 hours every day while only receiving a payment of 85 cents an hour. Making the children receive no education due to their working hours. This lead to the Proggresive movement in America. All the suffering that the children endured and there low education made America understand that this was wrong allowing many movemnts and laws rise in America.
The two main laws or movements that arised in America the Child Act Labor 1916 and the Revenue Act of 1919 became a unconstitutional movementunder the supreme court. Making America move into a time were it was illegal for children to work, making wages increase, more flexible hours, and making the children receive a better education.
MISAEL GARCIA
Hour 9
March 8
The success of Progressivism owed much to publicity generated by the muckrakers, writers who detailed the horrors of poverty, urban slums, dangerous factory conditions, and child labor, among a host of other ills.
The successes were many, beginning with the Interstate Commerce Act (1887) and the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890). Progressives never spoke with one mind and differed sharply over the most effective means to deal with the ills generated by the trusts; some favored an activist approach to trust-busting, others preferred a regulatory approach.
In the early 20th century many progressives believed that they were going to reform the American society. Democracy, efficiency, regulation of large companies and monopolies and social justice were their goals. The progressives believed that the people should be in control, not the government. They accomplished to make the government more democratic. They also wanted efficiency. Many progressives wanted to make government more centralized in decision-making to reduce the number of officials rather than direct local wards. Progressives believed that by regulating large companies it would granted them human rights and terminate industrialization. Social Justice was their other goal; progressives supported the government in action to help the people.
The picture of the miners. There were kid’s ages of twelve years old to fourteen year olds, who worked in factories for hours for a diminutive wage. There was so much dust that it penetrated the kid’s lugs. It was really sad for kids to work in that time period. That was one reason why the progressives wanted to regulate large companies and monopolies.
Deneiria Fletcher
Hour 3-4
The four primary goals of Progressivism are Democracy, Efficency, Regulations of Large Corporations and Monopolies, and Social Justice. Democracy was used to follow institutional reforms to spread the opinions and ideas of the American voice to the government using many different institutional reforms from Initiative to Direct Election. Efficency was used to make more efficent and cheap govermental service for the American Community. Regulations of Large Corporations and Monopolies was used to liberate human energies like Laissez-Faire and Trust-Busting. Lastly Social Justice simply were reform for development of social workers or child labor laws.
The Section titled Newsies is related to Progressivism because the children in this picture represent one of the primary goals of Progressivism which is The entactment of Child Labor Laws. Most of these pictures demonstrate children working in small end jobs.
The picture shows the harsh conditions of the young children back then. It was manditory for them to work at a young age and to stop their education at a young age. Today we have a choice of working and when we want to start working. We have to have a high school education. And we don't have to work in those harsh conditions like them. Back then those children had to work in hot factories and they were very unsafe and unsanitary. Some of their fingers were cut off from the mechines and they still had to work. They didn't have any protections from germs. Now a days we only can work a certain amount of hours as a minor. When we get hurt on the job, we can quit and sue the job. We have protective supplies when needed. Back then children had to work long, hot hours everyday and they didn't have breaks or days off. Now a days, we recieve days off and breaks during you shift at work. They use to recieve low wages for as many hours that they worked. Today we only can recieve a minimum amount of pay per hour we work or the employer can get in trouble for under paying.
But today slavery and child labor has come to an end. They both are non-existance today. It might have taken a while, but it still went through and no longer is going on.
Progressives sought to reform democracy in the United States of America. They tried to make it better dor everyone, not just the the trusts and monopolies. In the picture above shows that children working in factories rather than going to school. In ways the factory was their school. They learned new things like they would in school, they arrived and left at the same time each day. But the difference between school and the factory was that the factory paid more than school. School didn't put food on the table right away but it did in the future but people wanted food and money now which school didn't do. Employers hired children to work because they could pay them less than what they would pay adults or adolescents and they could work them longer.
Secret ballot helped reform democracy by ensuring that people could vote without being intimidated. They could vote for people they felt could do the job the best instead of being threatened into voting for someone that couldn't and had good connections. There was more room for individualism and people could vote. Workers could vote without fear of losing their job . People wouldn't be threatened, killed or talked about for the person that they voted for. People could elect people that would look out for the workerd instead of looking out for the big businesses and monopolies that ran the United States of America at that time.
Many Progressives tried to rid the United States' government of all the corruption that has been taking place over all those years. They got rid of corrupted individuals and passed laws. They got presidents elected that worked for the same goals as they did. They want the United States to prgress toward a full democracy that meant elected by the people. They worked everybody to have a fair say in government even of they didn't own a big business.
Progressives felt that big corporations should have regulations on it so that it shouldn't just run out of control. So that they would look out for the workers and low income families instead of just themselves. So many people felt tha it was that it was the presidents job to regulate big businesses. Teddy Roosevelt became a trust buster. A trust buster is someone that breaks up big corporations and monopolies so that prices can be lower and workers were paid more. This ensures thelow price by making small companies compete for business, therefore lowering prices.
The enactment of Child Labor Laws made it possible for children to go to school instead of working in factories. It made it so that children could grow up as children abd be taken care of by their parnts instead of them taking care of their parents at age six or ten. It made so that children had to go to school instead of working. The children began learning and the literacy level increased instead being low like it was.
Seafood Workers- Children worked in factories for long hours of the day and never got a chance to be a kid. The worked for 3:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.This is the main reason the Progressives enacted Child Labor Laws that regulated when, how, where, and what children can do for labor.
Bryant Robles
Hour 3/4
Progressivism. . . .
In the democracy part what the movement intendend to was to have the people involved in the government to allow them to have a say in the governement and to stand up for what they believe.
In efficiency the progressives wanted to make governement operations and services more efficient and rational. This was done by paying professional people, increasing the power of the city council, and by gettimg rid of bad political leaders. In the regulation of large corporations and monopolies; companies where broken down, regualtions placed to restrict size and made some companies socia; to benefit the people. Social justice was for the pople and their need for example welfare, child-labor laws, and 8hour days.
In the picture of the girls standing together in a very dowdy appearance. Can be a case of child labor because of how dirty they look and their tired and fatigued faces. The child labor was fought agains because parents wanted their children to be eductated and have a bright future.
I did the picture blog assignment.. In the miners section, last picture of the six pics..
This image shows how young the workforce got to be in some parts of the mining industry. These children were not educated, they didn't have the opportunities available today, and the work they were doing was hazardous to the strongest of men. The picture could be mistaken for a picture taken at a school, only at a closer glance, you see their faces, some grinning with coal smeared faces. The groups is only boys, all dressed in raggy clothes that were probably just "hand me downs". They're all wearing hats too. They'd work from 7am to 5:30pm. Usually a slave driver would supervise the workers, and often kick them in order to remind them to keep up the work. Parents were against this form of work, but they didn't have much of a say. Their children were "slaves". The pay these children would receive was extremely under the set minimum wage.
Today, this sort of work force wouldn't survive one day in America. In other places around the world, there is work almost as grueling as this, and there are forces fighting against it. Hopefully someday, there won't have to be child labor.
Before this assignment, I knew of the mines back in the 1800-1900s but I never knew they had the children working in them. Now that I look at my job compared to what these kids had to go through, I feel humbled.
Susie Higgins
Hour 9-9
The progressive movement was a spirit of reform which was supported by diverse Americans from 1900 to 1920. It had four primary goals: democracy, efficiency, regulations, and social justice.
-Democracy: The progressive movement wanted to use the direct voice of the American people by instating several reforms in voting procedures, such as referendums—where citizens can vote directly to approve laws, recall—procedures in which public officials can be removed by direct vote, secret ballot—the act of keeping votes secret, and Women’s Suffrage—the allowance of women to vote.
-Efficiency: The progressive movement pushed toward making governments able to serve the people and their needs. These reforms were able to better suit the people’s needs by making government operations rational. Some of these reforms were the instatement of professional administrators in a city manager system, centralization of decision making by reducing the number of officials, and the elimination of corruption in the government such as eradicating machine politicians and political bosses like Boss Tweed.
-Regulation: The progressive movement hoped that by regulating large corporations, they could improve the workers’ conditions. The ways that the progressives thought they could regulate the corporations was through the concept of Laissez-Faire—a French phrase which translates into “let do”—which supported free markets without governmental interference— it is the idea that the company will do well if the workers are happy, trust-busting which allowed the government to intervene by breaking up monopolies with the restoration of competitions, regulation which allowed large monopolies—with the government having a keen eye on them by regulating their procedures for the public interest, and socialism which allowed the government to obtain the ownership of large corporations.
-Social Justice: The progressive movement believed in private and governmental action to help those in need. Some of these actions include the instatement of social workers which are professionals who are trained to help those in need, settlement houses which raised the standard of living to those in the inner city, child labor laws which prevented overworking of children, support for goals of organized labor which pushed towards workers rights such as the eight hour work day, and prohibition laws which limited the use of alcohol.
Picture #3:
This picture relates to the progressive reform because it involves children. These children are dirty. They look tired. One looks as if he is missing an arm—which demonstrates that a factory was a dangerous place for a child. In the progressive movement, supporters worked toward the idea of social justice, specifically in children. They believed that children should not be overworked and taken advantage of by industrial corporations because of their need for cheap labor. The progressives believed that working-class children should be given the opportunity to go to school and mature before entering the workforce. The whole purpose of the progressive movement for children was to encourage the enhancement of society.
Brunson, Alexia
HOUR 3-4
The progressive era of the 1920's had 4 main goals.These goals were, democracy,efficiency,regulations and social justice.
Democracy
Reformatoin of the government was wanted to make it a democracy so that people had a say so in important topics.This would give people including women the right to vote.Addendum to the constitution made this possible.
Efficiency
The governments ablility to serve the needs of the people.Making government more organized to illiminate corruption, reducing the number of officials,all by reforms.
Regulation
By the regulation of large corporations work conditions could could improve. This by busting the trust of monopolies the competition would incress allowing more jobs to be had.
Social Justice
The beliefe in private and governmental action to help those in need. This included, settlement houses( raising the standard of living to those in the inner city), preventing the overworking of children,prhibition was then put into action and the eight hour day was considered for workers rights.
Picture
The young cannot learn to read or write because he works all day. he can not be a kid. Progressive reform in social justice made child labor laws to help prevent this. Minimizing the work that a child could do such as physical labor.
The picture demonstrates the work ethic and abuse of young children especially girls. It appears that they work long and hard days. This incident helps promotes the regulation of Progressivism. But what are the goals of Progressivism?
The goals of progressivism are regulation of large corporations such are mill factores or clothing factories, democracy in the goveronment, efficiency and social justice such as human rights. Regulation of large corporations was done to stop the large companies from monopolizing their fields of work. With this result it caused prices to be lowered and caused consumers to be satisfy. Democracy is letting the voice of the people take part in the ruling of the poltically. On the other hand, efficiency was the idea of creating an efficient well-organized government system in order to avoid mistakes and dishonesty.
Social justice specialized in improving the social life of citizens. They created many laws in order to keep people safe and well defended.
Progressivsm was during the 1900s through the 1920s.
Democracy is a system of government that is controled politicaly. Its controled by the people or citizens or by elected representatives. isIts invloves secreat voting and ballets.
Efficieny are different ways to stop the government from being corrupted. It described different ways of helping the economy.
Regulation of Large Corporations and Monopolies is when large companied had to follow rules to make sure their were no large monopolies.
Social Justice the concept of a society in which justice is achieved in every aspect of society, rather than merely the administration of law. It is generally thought of as a world which affords individuals and groups fair treatment and an impartial share of the benefits of society.
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