Examples of social reform in the following topics:
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- After 1900 the Progressive Era brought political and social reforms, such as new roles for education and a higher status for women.
- After 1900, the Progressive Era brought political and social reforms, such as new roles for education and a higher status for women, as well as modernizing many areas of government and society.
- At the urging of such prominent social critics as Jane Addams , child labor laws were strengthened and new ones adopted, raising age limits, shortening work hours, restricting night work and requiring school attendance.
- Beside presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson , she was the most prominent reformer of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace.
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- Social reform prior to the Civil War came largely out of this new devotion to religion.
- Efforts to apply Christian teaching to the resolution of social problems presaged the Social Gospel of the late 19th century.
- Reforms took the shape of social movements for temperance, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery.
- Social activists began efforts to reform prisons and care for the handicapped and mentally ill.
- Many participants in the revival meetings believed that reform was a part of God's plan.
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- Progressive reformers tried to achieve social justice by targeting poverty and all forms of social and political corruption.
- Rather than any dominating party affiliation, therefore, American progressives shared a common goal of wielding federal power to pursue a sweeping range of social, environmental, political, and economic reforms.
- The Progressive Era witnessed an increasing interest in social reforms.
- Equally significant to progressive-era reform were the rise of crusading journalists, commonly referred to as "muckrakers. " Muckrakers, who appealed to most middle class readers, targeted economic privilege, political corruption, social injustice, and corporate abuses.
- In sum, the "Progressive Era" is a broadly construed term that refers to a myriad of social, cultural, and political reform movements advocated by otherwise disparate interest groups and political parties that were reacting to the modernizing, industrializing economic and social situation that arose by the turn of the century.
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- The Second Great Awakening spurred waves of social change and reform.
- Efforts to apply Christian teaching to the resolution of social problems presaged the Social Gospel of the late 19th century.
- Thus, evangelical converts were leading figures in a variety of 19th century reform movements.
- Social activism influenced abolition groups and supporters of the temperance movement.
- They began efforts to reform prisons and care for the handicapped and mentally ill.
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- In 1890 Julia Lathrop moved to Chicago, where she joined Jane Addams, Ellen Gates Starr, Alzina Stevens, Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Florence Kelley, Mary McDowell, Alice Hamilton, Sophonisba Breckinridge, and other social reformers at Hull House.
- In 1893 Lathrop was appointed as the first ever female member of the Illinois State Board of Charities, beginning her lifelong work in civil service reform: advocating for the training of professional social workers and standardizing employment procedures.
- In 1921 the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act became the first federally funded social welfare measure in the United States.
- Prior to the reform era, children over the age of seven were imprisoned with adults.
- Under the banner of "social housekeeping," professional reformers encouraged wives and mothers to make the world into a safer and cleaner place to live.
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- Although the Progressive Era was a period of social progress, it also had multiple, contradictory goals that impeded reform efforts.
- Although the Progressive Era was a period of broad reform movements and social progress, it was also characterized by loose, multiple, and contradictory goals that impeded the efforts of reformers and often pitted political leaders against one another, most drastically in the Republican Party.
- Although significant advancements were made in social justice and reform on a case by case basis, there was little local effort to coordinate reformers on a wide platform of issues.
- Finally, many Progressive achievements were frustrated by the federal court system, which struck down laws regulating child labor, and by lack of resources and funds to fully implement social and political plans of reform.
- Paul Fass, speaking of youth, says "Progressivism as an angle of vision, as an optimistic approach to social problems, was very much alive."
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- Social Gospel held that Christians were called to combat social ills such as injustice and poverty.
- It gathered strength from the post-millennial theology that the Second Coming of Christ would come after mankind had reformed the entire earth.
- The Society for Ethical Culture, established in New York in 1876 by Felix Adler, attracted a Reform Jewish clientele.
- Important concerns of the Social Gospel movement were labor reforms, such as abolishing child labor and regulating the hours of work by mothers.
- Most began programs for social reform, which led to ecumenical cooperation and, in 1910, in the formation of the Federal Council of Churches, although this cooperation about social issues often led to charges of socialism.
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- Political corruption was a central issue, which reformers hoped to solve through civil service reforms at the national, state and local level, replacing political hacks with professional technocrats.
- Illinois modernized its bureaucracy in 1917 under Frank Lowden, but Chicago held out against civil service reform until the 1970s.
- Furthermore, racism often pervaded most progressive reform efforts, as evidenced by the suffrage movement.
- At the local, municipal, and state level, various Progressive reformers advocated for disparate goals that ranged as wide as prison reform, education, government reorganization, urban improvement, prohibition, female suffrage, birth control, improved working conditions, labor reform, and child labor reform.
- Although significant advancements were made in social justice and reform on a case by case basis, there was little local effort to coordinate reformers on a wide platform of issues.
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- Progressive-Era reformers sought to use the federal government to make sweeping reforms in politics, education, economics, and society.
- Emerging at the end of the 19th century, progressive reformers established much of the tone of American politics throughout the first half of the century.
- Rather than any dominating party affiliation, therefore, American progressives shared a common goal of wielding federal power to pursue a sweeping range of social, environmental, political, and economic reforms.
- They had little but contempt for the strict construction of the Constitution by conservative judges, who would restrict the power of the national government to act against social evils and to extend the blessings of democracy to less favored lands.
- The result was "municipal administration," which effectively managed legal processes, market transactions, bureaucratic administration, and urban reform.
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- During his first term as President, Wilson focused on three types of reform: Tariff Reform, Banking Reform, and Business Reform.
- During his first term as President, Wilson focused on three types of reform: tariff reform, business reform, and banking reform.
- Wilson spoke only briefly, but made it clear that, in order to avoid repeating the embarrassment of the thwarted reform of 1894, tariff reform was essential.
- The reform agenda of Wilson's "New Freedom," however, did not extend as far as Theodore Roosevelt's proposed New Nationalism in relation to the latter's calls for a standard 40-hour work week, minimum wage laws, and a federal system of social insurance.
- Despite this, Wilson did much to extend the power of the federal government in social and economic affairs, and paved the way for future federal reform programs such as the New Deal.