The Four Forms Of The Progressive Movement

The word progressive was used to loosely mean a movement of individuals and groups hoping to bring significant change in the life as they knew it. Progressivism is described into four forms of reform, economic including industrial, social, political, and moral. This era lead to many people and groups of people to fight for what they believed in. Many movements had included women such as social reforms. They believed men had privileges that women thought that they were their rights to have, so gender roles began to dramatically change.More women began working to provide for their families. Black women still worked in a domestic environment or in southern cotton fields and immigrant women worked in low-paying factories. These women became symbols for women emancipation and were faced limitations such as wage …show more content…
Even though they were barred from voting and holding office, women still challenged the barriers from which they were excluded and spoke out for a more democratic side of Progressivism.
During the Progressive Era, 13 million immigrants came to America from countries such as Italy, Russia, and Austro-Hungarian. Asian and Mexican came to the United States in smaller numbers.
Many new immigrants believed that the United States was the land of freedom, as many people had before; they wished for the American dream. Some, however, had plans to return home. These immigrants usually remained in close-knit communities relating to where they originally came from. Churches became staples for these communities. The amount of immigrants coming to America set in motion an industrial expansion. German and Irish brought new forms of beer creating saloons and bars. Asian worked on railroads stitched across the continent. Mexican brought industrial agriculture. Eventually many immigrant workers went on strike striving for higher wages. Many strikes ended when workers were killed, such as the Ludlow