Thinking About Progress

1. I would define progress as a growth or development in a certain skill, that you obtain by practicing.

2. The Progressive Era is during the 1890s and 1920s in the United States. Progressivism is a word that shows the influences of the economic and social dilemmas that industrialization had shown to America. Progressivism was a social movement that then became into a political movement.

3. The Progressive Era is associated with social reform issues like women rights, learning, unionization, troubles with urbanization, labor conditions, working children, and industrialization. The Progressive Movement had political reforms that helped these issues. The Progressives thought the government should help the problems with the society, with helping restore welfare of Americans back to what it used to be.

4. The progressive reforms all talk about the rights people should have, and a big theme of labor and who the laborers should be. The progressive reforms are all economic reforms for laborers and allowing children to work.

5. The 4 goals of progressives was based on improving the reforms and the society from the way th society was before the Progressive Era.
       1. Making a "Economic Reform"
       2. Guarding the "Social Welfare"
       3. Showing "Efficiency"
       4. Advancing "Moral Improvement"

Progressive Era