Origins of Progressivism


New University

      -Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)

Reform Darwinism 
      -Lester Franck Ward, Dynamic Sociology  (1883)

Pragmatism  (1907)
      -William James
          -Tender-Minded
          -Tough-Minded
                -Richard T. Ely

Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class  (1899)

Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)
      -Single Tax

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
      -Bellamy Nationalists

Social Gospel Movement
      -Christian Socialism
      -Charles Sheldon, In His Steps (1895)
              -What Would Jesus Do

 Settlement House Movement
     
-Jane Addams
      -Hull House

1901
      -J.P. Morgan
          
-United States Steel Corporation
     -Eugene V. Debs
          
-Socialist Party of America
     -Theodore Roosevelt
      
    -The Middle Way
 

 

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