HIST 2057 Chapter : Progressive Movement
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It was a huge shift from what was normal before. Until progressivism welfare was considered a family or community matter, the government didn"t get involved: when progressivism started people wanted to help out people in the slums and clean it up. They thought your environment affected your actions there for absolving people of responsibility for themselves: the progressive movement was the most powerful reform we"ve had, new university. Before progressivism they had colleges based on church and the point of this was to produce good moral people instead of free thinkers: after the civil war about 9,000 americans went to europe for school, especially. The schools there were very different, faculties had to teach what they knew and research to find more and teach that as well. Professors had to have expertise in the field they taught if they wanted to be hired, they couldn"t just be morally upstanding.
