The Progressive Era

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the conservative: Your philosophy, economics, politics, anthropology, everything you call Truth, is a rationalization of your economic interests.” The Progressive Movement was an attempt to regain control over the American agenda. The movement was a massive assault on the ‘problems’ that had plagued American life at the turn on the century.
American Progressivism originally began when the United States transitioned from a nation of small, independent agrarians with tremendous economic opportunities to a nation of employees and consumers, “at mercy of large corporations that, moreover, systematically plundered resources, exploited labor, and corrupted the government.”
“Awakened by the dangers which menace their freedom and prosperity the American people still retain the right and courage to exercise their sovereign control over the government in order to destroy the economic and political power of monopoly, which come between the people and their government, we ...

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