Progressive ideas that were seen in early to mid-20th century, but they were not new to that time. The problems that the people fought against had been continuing from the late 19th century. These problems can still be seen in today’s society as well showing that they were not completely taken care of during this time frame. Progressives goal was to progress towards freedom and justice. They were to find solutions to inequality and to injustice. Progressivist’s came at doing things to solve those in varying ways. “It was less an organized movement than a multifaceted response to the problems created by unregulated industrialization, unplanned urbanization, and unrelenting immigration.” (712 Tindall). Even though their attempts were as previously
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It is promoting of Democracy being one of those characteristics. The economic changes taking part due to the depression also in turn rapidly caused the political system to continuously change. America’s population at this time was growing about as rapidly as the political system and everything else was changing. The power in the economy was becoming ever more concentrated which did not go over well with the progressives. They responded to the power change by opening up political participation in hopes to get more say from more people. Sadly that progressive democracy did not always work. Another attempt of theirs was trying to restrict the vote of the people. Government would be one of two things. It would either become a government for and by the people or in other words a democracy, or it would become a good government. “If [the] political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand [American’s were to] create. All [they] have to do is establish a steady demand for good government,” (142 Blum). A good government is also known as a government governed by experts or city managers which took away the democracy feel but was said that it would work a million times better than a democracy governed by the people would be.
Another feature of Progressivism is efficiency. They were fighting for the freedoms of the American people and if something is to be done then it would need to impact the world or it will have been don’t for no reason because they did not receive the outcome they needed. Showing how much the efficiency of their actions, David Wilcox tells of how he sees this
It is promoting of Democracy being one of those characteristics. The economic changes taking part due to the depression also in turn rapidly caused the political system to continuously change. America’s population at this time was growing about as rapidly as the political system and everything else was changing. The power in the economy was becoming ever more concentrated which did not go over well with the progressives. They responded to the power change by opening up political participation in hopes to get more say from more people. Sadly that progressive democracy did not always work. Another attempt of theirs was trying to restrict the vote of the people. Government would be one of two things. It would either become a government for and by the people or in other words a democracy, or it would become a good government. “If [the] political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand [American’s were to] create. All [they] have to do is establish a steady demand for good government,” (142 Blum). A good government is also known as a government governed by experts or city managers which took away the democracy feel but was said that it would work a million times better than a democracy governed by the people would be.
Another feature of Progressivism is efficiency. They were fighting for the freedoms of the American people and if something is to be done then it would need to impact the world or it will have been don’t for no reason because they did not receive the outcome they needed. Showing how much the efficiency of their actions, David Wilcox tells of how he sees this