Dbq Essay On Progressives

The progressive movement was a time period after the "gilded age" during the dawn of the 20th century were people made attempts to become equal and more people became "progressive". These progressive desired to make changes (and did make changes) in the political, economic, and social sectors of the time. Politically progressives aimed to reform the elections of the time and change who could vote. Economically progressives aimed to improve conditions in factories and for businesses. And socially, progressives wanted to preserve the American environment. These goals changed America and great leaps were taken in order to complete them, most of the time, achieving them fully. The progressive movement had bluntly stated what their goals and beliefs were in the "Progressive Party Platform of 1912" document (document 1), where they stated their platform and what they stand for. In this document they established what they thought of voting rights, and politics of the time, confirming that politically they stand for: nationwide primaries, direct election of senators, equal voting rights for women, suffrage for men and …show more content…
These goals all amounted to wanting to give people the ability to participate in politics and control their government. These goals were clearly established along in this document along with their many economic goals; having documented that they aimed to: stop industrial accidents, diseases, overwork, unreasonable firings; to improve work conditions in factories; to stop child labour; to increase minimum wage; to give each worker a eight hour work day; to stop convict labour; improve factories efficiency and service; to compensate dead workers families; and to generally protect the organization of theos working. This shows that the major goal of progressivism to help the people of the time, the workers who were majority of the people, and make their lives better. Furthermore, socially the