Goals And Accomplishments Of The Progressive Era

Pedro Montoya III

Professor Mills

History II

03/11/2017

Goals and accomplishments of the progressive era

There were many goals of the progressive era, but I believe that that two main ones were to reform society and to reform politics and the government. These goals were solutions to fix the problems brought upon by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in the government. Settlement houses and urban reform were the leader of the social reform. They were reforming society by creating 400 settlement houses which organized kindergartens, nurseries, taught classes in English, cooking, and in personal hygiene. The Settlement workers campaigned for stricter building codes to improve slums, better urban sanitation systems to enhance public health, public parks to revive the urban

Reformers looked to reshape public education and to reform the country life as well to modernize the social and the economic condition. Moral reform movements goals were to shape society. The New York Tenement House Law of 1901 established a model housing code for safety and sanitation, and the Keating Owen act of 1916 which indirectly prohibited child labor. The eighteenth amendment that instituted prohibition, and the nineteenth amendments that established woman’s suffrage were a few accomplishments of those goals sought by The social reformers.

Progressives looking to work on reforming politics and the government were motivated by different reasons. Many of the progressives were looking to change the procedures and intuitions to promote greater democracy and responsibility, others hoped to improve the efficiency of the government, eliminate corruption, or increase their own influences. Municipal reform was also a goal of the reformers seeking to reform politics and government. Muckrakers exposed crooked partnerships between city bosses and business leaders that resulted in wasteful or poor municipal