How can we define the diverse goals of the Progressive reform movement?
In short: The early twentieth century was defined by a surge of Progressive reform movements. This clip examines how those diverse initiatives sought to advance voting rights, morality, conservation, sanitation, and labour.
Kim Kutz Elliott examines the complex nature of the Progressive era by comparing the specific goals and the actual effects of these many reform movements. Because the movement spanned so many different avenues of reform, defining exactly who the Progressives were remains a central question of the period.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: The Progressives | Period 7: 1890-1945 | AP US History | Khan Academy
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