Progressive Era
This time period was when the country was wanting to move forward with social agenda, reformation with social agenda. The country wanted to change the way we act. Why? because of the Civil War and because we wanted to be a better economy.
Progressives did:
- end abuse of power
- replace corrupt power with humane institutions
- Appllied scientific principals, and political life.
- through government was best suited for these changes.
Types of preogrssors:
- National associations and forien influences
- New middle class and much rickers
- upper class reformers
- working class reformers
- socialists
Progressive Creations:
- settlement houses
- social gospel
- geovernment and legurstrative reform
- labor reform
- prohabition
- controlled prostuation