Progressive Era

     Progress is defined as forward or onward movement to an objective or goal on Merriam-Webster. According to the George Washington University, the progressive era was around from 1890-1920. On Library of Congress, this was further explained as business expansion and progressive reforms were so common and abundant during this time in the early 20th century: "The progressives, as they called themselves, worked to make American society a better and safer place in which to live." People generally wanted to make the nation a place with equal treatment for everyone, which includes women finally getting the right to vote in this time period. Some were even working to help preserve resources and the environment. They worked to clean up government policies, regulate business, and improve typical working and living conditions. Essential goals worth striving for include ones such as civil rights issues like finally getting women the right to vote with Women's Suffrage, and prioritizing the policies highlighted by the government to make everything fair and working towards a better democracy. Good ideas were involving ones such as regulating businesses, improving working and living conditions, and preserving natural resources. These were considered good rather than excellent to me simply because they seem tougher to actually execute completely and are not as specifically connected to how the people react in society as Women's Suffrage, for example, at this point in time. And a strange and perhaps not so good idea was the larger prohibition outbreak that spread across the country. The people were worried of all the civil, political, and economic issues in the country and outlawing a common activity as drinking alcohol seemed out of place here and a way to ask for people to break the law. Mainly, the progressives had a very helpful intention in the work they had set out to do and the Progressive Era was exactly what it sounds like in the history of America: forward movement.
Child labor, common issue that was the focus of many people in improving such working conditions

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