How Successful Was The Progressive Movement

Did the progressive movement succeed in helping people? The progressive movement did help due to the contributing factors. Many things exposed the working conditions and also how people were treated. The movement exposed the hidden dark secrets of industrialization and social circumstances. Thee progressive movement addressed meat inspection, child labor and women's suffrage. One of the problems that was solved was companies selling adulterer and misleading meat to the consumers. Many companies didn't care what they were selling if they received profit it was all good. Thanks to a muckraker named Upton Sinclair who exposed this by writing The Jungle. When he wrote this, he included revolting details about the product. "This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat will be shoveled into carts and the man who did the shoveling will not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one."(Upton Sinclair, The Jungle). Once people started to learn about the conditions of their food, a shock of wave passed through them. By exposing them, Upton Sinclair's book impacted for an act. That's how the Meat Inspection Act was created. They now had to sell meat that was truthful to the label and inspect the product.

Wages were so low, children had to go to work at soon as possible. Kids worked by dangerous machinery, one simple mistake and they would get hurt or killed. With the progressive movement child labor was exposed. In a factory, they would lock the children up so they could keep working. Many would get sick and diseases due to working in the factories. "...the children of the poor began to get rickety. It is perhaps the commonest disease from which children of the working-class suffer.(John Spargo,The Bitter Cry of The