The Progressive Era

The Progressive Movement had four major goals. Firstly, it aimed to increase public participation in politics, which was achieved through reforms such as the 17th amendment, recall, referendum, and...

Progressives used several tactics to bring about social change. One tactic they used was to expose the injustices in our society. Writers like Upton Sinclair, John Spargo, and Lincoln Steffens...

The Progressives were early 20th-century reformers, including middle-class professionals like journalists, teachers, and politicians, who aimed to address social and economic issues. Their goals...

World War I affected the Progressive Era by significantly dampening the optimism and reformist spirit that characterized the period. The war led to widespread disillusionment and a shift towards...

During this time, the relationship between government and business changed largely because the Progressives felt that business was abusing its power.  The Progressives felt businesses had too...

The presidency changed during the Progressive Era as it became more powerful and proactive in response to public demand for reform. Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson took the lead...

This is, of course, a matter of opinion.  My own view is that, of the reforms listed here, the 19th Amendment is the most important.  This is because it did the most to right a wrong and...

The Progressive movement impacted immigrants both positively and negatively. Reformers like Jane Addams provided services such as English classes, daycare, and recreational activities through...

The Progressive Movement in America originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a response to industrialization, urbanization, and political corruption. Key achievements include the...

What the progressives were trying to do was to reduce the power of big business and of things like political machines.  They wanted to return political power to the middle classes -- they saw...

The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) was a reaction to the problems created by industrialization and urbanization during the Gilded Age. The most successful president during this time was probably...

We tend to think of the Progressives as a group that was interested in making the United States more democratic, but this is not uniformly true.  It is more accurate to say that most...

Both Henry George in Progress and Poverty, and Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward attempted to come up with innovation ways to deal with the social problems caused by unequal distribution of wealth...

The Progressives during the Progressive Era believed in addressing social issues caused by industrialization, urbanization, and corruption. They advocated for government intervention to regulate...

The Progressive Era was a turning point in creating a more activist government because the rapid industrialization of the late 1800s had created various problems that (some people felt) needed...

In my opinion, social reform and social control often came together because the reformers (mostly middle class "natives") wanted to change the behaviors of people who did not always want their...

The power of the federal government increased during this period due to crises like wars and depressions.  In almost every case, major crises in American life led to more power being taken by...

American cultural development in the 1820s and 1830s reflected the democratic impulse of the era in that states dropped property ownership requirements for voting and participation in elections...

Both George and Bellamy were writers, Bellamy as a newspaper reporter although his influence came mostly through his novels.  Looking Backward, published in 1888 and set in Boston, sold over a...

The Progressives' concern with industrial concentration was that this sort of concentration ended up giving the large companies too much power.  This was the era of "robber barons" with their...

One of the main goals of the Progressive reformers was an increase in democracy.   These reformers wanted the people to have more direct control over government in a number of ways. ...

For the most part, progressive whites in the early 20th century accepted the idea of racial segregation.  During this period, the vast majority of African Americans lived in the South. ...

There are probably particular goals that you are supposed to get from your book or from your teacher's class notes.  So I do not know if these will be phrased the way your teacher expects them...

First, we should realize that the role of most women during the Progressive Era was the same as the role of most women before that era and soon after it.  For much of our history, including...

The Progressive Era saw major reforms such as the establishment of child labor laws, women's suffrage, antitrust regulations, and improved working conditions. These reforms were largely effective in...

As with any multiple choice question, I think that you should consider consulting your course readings or your textbook to make sure that what is being asked can be validated and verified in class...

The progressive movement was born out of the emerging middle class in America. Reform by definition is to make something better. In this case rais the quality of life for many Americans. The...

The basic ideology of the Progressive movement was one that called for using the power of the government to rein in big businesses and to enforce "better" behavior on the lower classes.  The...

Basically, the Progressives tried to do two main things.  They tried to take governmental power from the rich and the poor and give it to the middle class.  Second, they tried to...

When the US government broke with the ideas of laissez-faire during this time, it was generally because various politically powerful constituencies wanted the government to do so.  At times,...

On the one hand progressives wanted social justice.  For example, they wanted women to be able to have the right to vote and they wanted to limit the power of business to exploit its workers....

The question isn't quite clear, so I'm assuming you mean evaluate the success of the movement in terms of working conditions. Because so much of the country's population at that time was living in...

Ultimately, this question refers to the political and economic realities taking shape under the Gilded Age, when business operations were getting larger and larger, as the United States...

During the last decade of the 19th century, the Populists were the most prominent reformers in the United States.  Although they died out in that same decade, some of their ideas lived on with...

This is a fascinating collection of questions that ultimately boil down to a deeper question: What was the Progressive Movement actually about? In answer to that question, I sincerely doubt that...

During the Progressive Era, lasting from 1890-1920, governments and activists began to address both the workplace and urban problems that developed as a result of the United States's rapid...

I think that it should be noted that the Progressives did not set out to construct a platform of racist thought.  Their commitment to social justice and transformation of the political and...

For the most part, World War I helped to undermine the Progressive agenda. There are ways in which the war can be said to have advanced the Progressive agenda.  This is mainly the case because...

"Progressivism" is a term often used to refer to the reform movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Self-identified progressives were interested in improving the conditions of the...

There were many factors that stimulated the reforms of the Progressive Era.  Some examples are: Increasing number of immigrants.  During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the US received...