What is Economic Individualism? The economy is seen as discrete individual units and the individual is the primary actor in the economy.
An individual given the opportunity will go as far as their abilities will take them.
What is the Social Gospel?
(Opposite of economic individualism). A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation. This plants the seeds for the Progressive Movement
What is Laissez-faire?
An economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government intervention such as regulation=
Who were the Progressives?
Progressives were journalists, intellectuals, and political reformers whose reform efforts were aimed at returning control of the people, restoring economic opportunities, and correcting injustices in American life. The progressives simultaneously sought two goals: to use state power to curb the trusts and to stem the socialist threat by generally improving the common person’s conditions of life and labor
The THREE main strands of the Progressivism
The movement was a wide ranging series of reforms (political, social, economic) at the national –state-local level focusing on three main areas:
- Anti-monopolies and a fear of consolidated power
- Social bonds – society is an interconnected whole - let's help each other
- Science, expertise, and efficiency (elitist) – Expertise by virtue of education, profession to scientific reforming of society
The Targets of Progressive Reformers (Optimism and possibility of improving society)
- Living and working conditions in the growing urban centers
- Transforming individuals – Indians (Dawes Act/Indian Schools and Immigrants/Settlement Houses)
- Racial Tensions and reactions to Jim Crow - Booker T Washington visits the White House
- Child Labor, Women’s Labor
- Extended voting rights women: Suffrage Image ; Suffrage Map; Suffrage Cartoon
- Making government more responsive
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