Essay On The Progressive Era

The progressive era advanced America where it lacked the most, it improved countless lives for the overall betterment of American society. There most definitely “good people” that were protected from “bad interests” by the reforms. Reforms were needed in corruption in labor, to government, issues in socialism, rights, trusts, the list was never ending until the reforms that shaped our country into much like what it has become today. Every American benefitted from the reforms in his or her own way. The working class chasing after the American dream benefitted the most, there were numerous issues with labor, factories had unsanitary conditions, hazardous machines being operated by untrained workers for barely enough money to buy food for

The progressive era improved the lives of all Americans and a majority of them benefited in different ways. President Woodrow Wilson focused on conservation issues where millions of acres of land was preserved by the National Park Service founded in 1916 to prevent the destruction of nature before it began, in turn affecting every American and more specifically ones directly associated with the push for conservation. Governments were reformed ending the corruption by local officials in places such as New York where immigrants whom had just stepped their foot onto America were bombarded with promises of housing or a job if they voted for certain politicians, an over no poor immigrant could refuse, thus further fueling the political machines. The issue of monopolies over government weren’t the only monopolies seen as an issue, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was passed to prevent businesses that monopolized a whole market and hiked the price of it immensely, railroad companies were major offenders of this. Further movements such as temperance, the banning of alcohol consumption and sales throughout the entire united states affected the lives of every