HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, Working Class Culture
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Led by women who wanted to rid of poverty, child labor. Females believed they had moral responsibility to clean up society, a reflection of home. Frustrated that alcohol was central evil in society, virtually every problem stems from drinking, working class culture needs to change, women have movement to ban alcohol. Nation went to the prisons to preach god"s word. Got arrested more than 30 times for breaking peoples" property. Origins of progressivism: response to industrialization, immigration, and urbanization, fear of big business, fear of corrupt government, desire to improve american lives, economic depression, progressive-minded presidents (tr, taft, and wilson) Think of progressivism as an umbrella term, under which a variety of reform groups championed liberalism. What"s liberalism: government should be more active, social problems solved through government action and legislation, progressivism was not a unified movement, progressives often had contradictory aims, led by middle class to regulate the wealthy and the poor.
