Progressivism had a huge impact of the daily life of people and the people in need for help including the poor and needy. It had for main goals which are protecting social Welfare, Promoting Moral Improvement, Creating Economic Reform, and Fostering Efficiency.
Protecting the Social Welfare worked on softening the effects on industrialization. They helped the poor by giving them a place to stay, sleep, eat, giving them a church and social services. Promoting Moral Improvement said that morality was the key to improving lives of the poor. This helped gain people higher moral to stand up for what you believe in, like women suffrage. Because Creating Economic Reform, many people questioned the capitalistic system after the panic of 1893. During this time Muckrakers made a lot of people question the people that represent them. Even some Laborers began to embrace socialism. To make the workplace more efficient, progressive put faith in experts and scientific principles, which is the last goal of Fostering efficiency.
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