The gilded age was a time of corruption, monopolies, worker abuse and much more in the 1870’s. Because of this the economy was harsh. The Progressive reforms was America’s attempt to correct and fix the economy due to the gilded age. At first progressivism was a social movement, it then later became a political movement. People who believed in progressivism believed that if the people had a better education, safer work environments and the abolishment of corruption which they fixed by “trustbusting” in workplaces we could the reform America. The people of the progressive movement believed that the government was the key to change the current economy at the time. One of the ways that the people of the progressive movement helped fix the
