Social Sciences and History / Unit 2 SSH 0111 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Progressivism: Who, What, Why
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The idea
Progressivism began as grassroots reform and reached Washington after nineteen hundred. Muckrakers exposed social ills. Educated middle-class Protestants dominated, but Black Americans, women and rural people joined, seeking democracy, efficiency and social justice.
In practice
Initiative, referendum, recall, direct primary; La Follette's Wisconsin Idea.
Where people slip
Mainstream Progressives feared the Socialists and the Industrial Workers of the World, who wanted workers' power by direct action.
Your place on the trail
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