Zinn’s interpretation of the progressive era is that he thinks socialism reached its high mark and Foner’s interpretation was he thought that there were more social divisions such as more population and consumer marketplace. Howard Zinn thought they owed largely too many of the problems that was from the rise of the industrial capitalism. Many progressives tried to enact on many of these social issues including Howard Zinn himself. He saw the problem as being started as capitalism itself. Zinn said “that they could not count on the national government. True, this was the “progressive period” the start of the age of reform; but it was a reluctant reform, aimed at quieting the popular risings, not making fundamental changes. (In a people’s history
