From 1890 to 1920 the United States went through a difficult time when people started realizing that they need to be in charge of their own life. People realized that they were being over worked and were getting little to no pay. Also people realized that the government was rarely involved in big businesses, who were dominating the economy. Who are the Progressives? What social groups did the Progressives represent? What political system or “reformed” society did the Progressives seek? All of these questions were answered by the historians, Gabriel Kolko, Joseph Huthmacher, and George Mowry.
Huthmacher and Mowry had a different view of who they thought Progressives were. Huthmacher believed, “Urban lower class provided active, numerically …show more content…
As time went on businessmen realized that if they to matters into their own hands things would started getting out of hand. Businessmen soon understood that, “Only the national Government could rationalize the economy” (Kolko, 22). Overtime the businessmen were begging for help from the government to regulate other industries and the monopoly they controlled. Although, “It was not the existence of the monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it,” this caused many businessmen to grow angry (Kolko, …show more content…
Huthmacher looked at the Era from the lower class view, Mowry looked at it from the middle class view, and Kolko looked at it from the businessman and political view. I personally thought that Mowry’s view on the Progressive Era should more of the truth than the other historians. He talked about the middle class and the reforms they instituted into the government by being activist in daily life. He talked about the differences in races as being, “…separated by two oceans from in the inferior races and by an instinctive race and revulsion to cross breeding that marks the American wherever he is found,” he goes on to saying that this division causes panic in labor (Mowry,
Huthmacher and Mowry had a different view of who they thought Progressives were. Huthmacher believed, “Urban lower class provided active, numerically …show more content…
As time went on businessmen realized that if they to matters into their own hands things would started getting out of hand. Businessmen soon understood that, “Only the national Government could rationalize the economy” (Kolko, 22). Overtime the businessmen were begging for help from the government to regulate other industries and the monopoly they controlled. Although, “It was not the existence of the monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it,” this caused many businessmen to grow angry (Kolko, …show more content…
Huthmacher looked at the Era from the lower class view, Mowry looked at it from the middle class view, and Kolko looked at it from the businessman and political view. I personally thought that Mowry’s view on the Progressive Era should more of the truth than the other historians. He talked about the middle class and the reforms they instituted into the government by being activist in daily life. He talked about the differences in races as being, “…separated by two oceans from in the inferior races and by an instinctive race and revulsion to cross breeding that marks the American wherever he is found,” he goes on to saying that this division causes panic in labor (Mowry,