CFHS AP US History

We started class today by going over the Chapter 17-20 tests. We then took the following notes: PROGRESSIVEISM WAS A REFORM MOVEMENT Progressives wanted to rid politics of corruption, tame the power of the "trusts" and, in the process, inject more liberty into American life. Progressives fought against prostitution, gambling, drinking, and other forms of vice. Progressives first appeared in city politics. They agreed there was a need for activist government to right political, economical, and social wrongs by taxing income, regulating industry, protecting consumers from fraud, empowering workers, safeguarding the environment, and providing social welfare. Progressivism emerged most strongly among young, middle class Protestants who felt alienated from their society by the immorality and corruption running rampant in politics and by the gap separating the rich from the poor. The Social Gospel-belief in applying Christian principles to social and political order Muckrackers-investigative journalists writing for both newspapers and magazines; they were progressives who exposed the corruption of city governments -Jacob Riis: well known muckraker who exposed NYC slum life in his book How the Other Side Lives -Ida Tarbell: exposed Standard Oil Company -Lincoln Stephens: wrote about corruption in city governments...mostly about Baltimore Popular Reads: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Cosmopolitan Ladies Home Journal Ashcan School: Progressive art movement focused on realism; the Ashcan school-realist painters Settlement Homes and Their Services: set up to help the less fortunate, especially immigrants; provided English language instruction, job search help, food, childcare, ethnic recreation ex. Jane Adams' Hull House in Chicago

CFHS AP US History