Reforming The Government During The Years 1890 To 1920's

Reforming the Government During the years 1890 to 1920, there was an era where a group of people called, “the Progressives,” identified many problems that they saw under their city at the time. The Progressives were a diverse group of people from every work of life for example journalists, democratic party, republican party, industries, and many others were Progressives. They agreed to use scientific principles in order to identify problems, offer solutions, and then in a rational way solve those problems. They believed that their reasoning of having these problems were because of the industrialization and organization , however, they were not completely wrong but not completely correct. They also believed that they need an enormous amount

The reason why they wanted to do that first is because the government has the power to solve the political and social problems but they believe in order to do that the government itself must be fixed. Even Woodrow Wilson said, “(Our) great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people…(Document 2)” Which in this quote represents how the government have been co-otp for selfish purposes rather than using it for the greater good of the people. The progressives believe that applying principles of scientific management would make the government more efficient and that instead of politicians managing a modern city it should be experts. The reason why they believe that politicians are not a great choose to manage a modern city is because they know a little amount about the city’s services. Frederick W. Taylor’s book, “The Principles of Scientific Management,” is a book where he described how the company could be more efficient by managing time, breaking tasks down into small parts, and using standardized tools. They wanted either a council-manager system or a commission plan which means a city’s government would be divided into several departments under the control of an expert commissioner. They also said that if a board of commissioner or a city manager that has the knowledge in city

Even before the Progressive Era, women had an issue of not being able to vote so they started this suffrage movement. Many suffragists were accused of being unfeminine, immoral, and some were physically attacked. Rose Schneiderman said, " Women in the laundries stand for 13 and 14 hours in the terrible steam and heat with their hands in hot starch. Surely these women won’t lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in the ballot box(Document 7)." This quote represents Women were disappointed when the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments didn’t gave women the right to vote instead it only gave voting rights to the African Americans. After a debate over the two amendments, two groups were formed with different strategy on how to get women the right to vote but they were later then united into becoming the National American Woman Suffrage Association. They were also disappointed when their constitutional amendment failed to pass by Congress in 1878. Wyoming was the first state that allowed women the right to vote soon afterwards other states started to follow. Women were having trouble becoming politically active so they began to lobbying lawmakers, organizing marches, and delivering speeches on street corners. When this movement finally gained some momentum and interest from the upperclassmen, they were able to