Prohibition is an example of social engineering, a concept favored by Progressives.
Changes in social conditions
In social conditions
Progressives were reformers who worked to improve social and political problems, begining in the late 1800s; Muckrakers were mostly progressives who exposed political corruption in big business through journalism in order to bring about reform.
Religion and science
The Social Purity Movement was active from the 1860's until 1910 and was intended to abolish prostitution. It was important to contemporary feminists and eugenics.
Prohibition is an example of social engineering, a concept favored by Progressives.
Changes in social conditions
Progressives wanted economic reform, and a more liberal social environment.
In social conditions
In social conditions
In social conditions
The progressives believed in social justice, reform, and modernism. It was not the goal of this group to go back to traditional ideas.
Christianity should be the basis of social reform.
Progressives believed in using government intervention to create social and economic reforms to improve society. Social Darwinists, on the other hand, believed in the idea of survival of the fittest and that government intervention would interfere with natural selection and the progress of society.
A social movement that resists some social change
Progressives were reformers who worked to improve social and political problems, begining in the late 1800s; Muckrakers were mostly progressives who exposed political corruption in big business through journalism in order to bring about reform.