Progressivism in America: Movements and Changes

The Progressive era in America (roughly late nineteenth century into the 1930s) was in response to government exploitation, bigotry, child labor, unpleasant working conditions in processing plants, absence of human rights for the ladies and minorities, and environmental degradation. Numerous positive changes were made: thanks President Theodore Roosevelt, who demanded safeguarding America's common assets; he likewise busted imposing business models and called for justice for women.

According to the Eleanor Roosevelt project handout published on the George Washington University (GWU) site, progressivism started as a social development and advanced into a political development. Early in the social development, reformists were worried about the issues society confronted (destitution, brutality, prejudice, insatiability and class fighting) and they trusted that those issues could be best tended to through instruction, a more secure environment, and a work environment that was reasonable and safe. (The Progressive Era (1890-1920)) The GWU staff said that those considered progressives lived for the most part in the urban areas, were school graduates, and trusted that the legislature could be an instrument for change. Among the most vocal and noticeable social

By book American Progressivism: A Reader, Roosevelt promoted the accompanying changes: 1) to break down the unholy cooperation between fraudulent businesses and politics; 2) probation of child labor, a 8-hour workday, welfare and health models for laborers, and least wages for female workers; 3) founding of social security (precursor of Social Security); and 4) guard/preservation of national forests (Roosevelt launched the National Park framework) and farming grounds. (Pestritto and