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Our Culture: The Progressive Movement

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There was many ways our culture was influenced by the progressive movement. Some where movements for women and civil rights to environmentalism, immigration, antiwar activism, and gay rights. Many leading progressive political leaders in the past were reactionary and pushed for issues of race and gender to be addressed. At the same time, the seeds of the great civil rights triumphs of the 20th century came from within progressivism itself (Halpin, 2010 pg.1). The roots of modern liberalism with which we all know today started in the Progressive Era. Among ordinary Americans, as opposed to the political, academic, professional, and entertainment elites, there is still a strong attachment to property rights, self-reliance, and heterosexual marriage;
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