In the early 20th century, America was trying to cure many of the wrongs that society had created in the industrial age during the 19th century. At first the progressive movement began at the local level with changes being brought upon the expansion of high school and suppressing the red light district. The movement gradually moved onto the state and eventually the national level. The Progressive Era reformers and the government were fairly successful in bring about reform at the national level. However, they’re clear successes and limitations; economically, pertaining to trusts and monopolies, socially, concerning the meat inspection and civil rights, and politically, with more direct democracy.
First of all the social aspect of the Progressive Era had its ups and downs in terms of the civil rights movements of both African-Americans and Woman, labor laws, and food laws. Upton Sinclair, a socialist, published The Jungle, which exhibited the Chicago meatpacking plants. The book......
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