Quandary: The Progressive Era

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The Progressive Era is unique in that this impulse spread to foster an all-encompassing mood and effort for reform.The immigrant "Quandary" was handled for the most part by white, middle-class puerile women. Many of these female reformers had been inculcated in the incipient women 's colleges that had sprung up in the tardy nineteenth century. Possessing an edification yet barred from most professional vocations, these women took to "Sodality building" as an expedient to be active in public life. Among these sodalities were the Women 's Trade Cumulation League, the Women 's Christian Temperance Cumulation, the National Consumers ' League, the American Red Cross, Associated Jewish Charities, Licit Avail, Juvenile Protective Sodality and an