Progressivism In The 1900's: Social And Political Movement

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The political climate began to change after the 1900’s when people were fed up with what direction the nation was going in with the whole industrialization and urbanization that America had collided with. The political climate began to shift towards the progressive side. This change was known as the progressive era. Progressivism in the 1900’s was a social and political movement. Progressives were primarily educated Americans. Of those progressives, a group of sharp investigative journalist came together and brought light to all the injustices that were taking place in America. The poor communities are the ones who suffered the most from these social inequalities.
According to Cobbett, “What knit so many Progressives together was the feeling

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