Local Progressive Reform

First established in 1844 in the UK by George Williams, it came to the US in 1851.  The goals of its founders were to bring homeless people living in industrial cities off the streets and give them Bible studies and food and shelter.  Today it still provides education, housing, food, and athletics.

• YMCA
• Salvation Army
• Social Gospel Movement
• Settlement House Movement

Founded in England by William Booth in 1865, this organization came to the US around 1880 because of Eliza Shirley.  This organization wanted to save drunkards, prostitutes, thieves, and gamblers from the lives they were living. This organization would use music to entice people in and would then feed them and then share the message of Christianity with them.

• YMCA
• Salvation Army
• Social Gospel Movement
• Settlement House Movement

key figures = Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch; rejected the idea of original sin, saying that the environment is what makes a human bad and then if you fix the environment, you fix the person; using Christian charity to help aid the poor of the inner cities

• YMCA
• Salvation Army
• Social Gospel Movement
• Settlement House Movement

key figures = Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, Janie Porter Barrett; providing housing, shelter, jobs skills, English classes, gymnasiums, health insurance, kindergarten for inner city poor, especially immigrants

• YMCA
• Salvation Army
• Social Gospel Movement
• Settlement House Movement

How did Progressive reform go?

• start at the national level, then work its way down to the state level, then local level
• Started at the local level, then made it to the state level, but then like Populism it never made it any farther
• Started at the local level, then successes allowed reform to percolate up to the state, then to the national level

Which of the following themes is NOT found in your textbook regarding Progressive reform?

• Progressive reform promoted social welfare
• Progressive reform heavily promoted African American civil rights
• Progressive reform desired moral improvement
• Progressive reform wanted more efficiency in government and the economy

Which of the following is true?

• The Populists were more immediately successful than the Progressives
• The Progressives were more immediately successful than the Populists.

name associated with Chicago's Hull House; she later became a women's rights advocate and protested WWI

• George Waring
• Janie Porter Barrett
• Lillian Wald
• Jane Addams

name associated with inner city street cleaning

• George Waring
• Janie Porter Barrett
• Lillian Wald
• Jane Addams

name associated with creating a settlement house for African Americans

• George Waring
• Janie Porter Barrett
• Lillian Wald
• Jane Addams