What Factors Combined to Create the Progressive Movement for Reform During the Late 19th/early 20th Centuries?
Question by Shasta T: What factors combined to create the Progressive Movement for reform during the late 19th/early 20th centuries?
What factors combined to create the Progressive Movement for reform during the late 19th/early 20th centuries?
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Answer by baadevo
The Progressive Movement was the culmination of several attempts to bring about change in the way that business and political machines had gained control over the government and economy of the U.S.. The causal factors were many, some of them were; the Laissez Faire attitude of government, the growth and power of trusts and monopolies such as Standard Oil and U.S. Steel, abuses of consumers by various businesses, unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, child labor, poor sanitation in cities, disease in cities, graft and corruption in city and state governments.
Some of the earlier movements that came together at the time of the Progressive Movement were the Populist Movement which was a political revolt by the American Farmers that came to a head in 1892 with the Populist Party and the Omaha Platform. The Populists wanted reform in political and economic policy. They called for direct election of senators, government ownership of r.r. companies, government control of monopolies and going off of the gold standard onto the silver standard (“free silver”} which would create inflation and ease the farmers debts.
Additionally there was the Woman’s Suffrage movement that was gaining momentum with more aggressive leadership like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. There were some spectacular events like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in which many female workers burned to death in a garment sweat shop. One of the key ingredients was the rise of the “muckrakers” journalists who wrote lurid tales about the abuses of big business and the rotten conditions in cities. Authors like Lincoln Steffens, Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell and John Spargo focused the public’s attention on the worsening conditions for America’s poor. With a higher rate of literacy and the advent of news magazines more and more middle class Americans read these stories and demanded change. Several political leaders like Bob La Follette, Teddy Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson began to promise the American people change and improvement. Ultimately women got the right to vote, senators were elected directly by the people, pure food and drug legislation was passed, child labor legislation was passed and health standards were improved as a result of the Progressive movement.
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Speaking from personal experience. If one has PTSD he already has it, if
one doesnt have PTSD, distant events, are just that, distant. It doesnt
ring with the same horror as personal experiences do. To say that the
whole nation has PTSD because of our history, is to ignore
1) All immigrants that came here, who share no history with establishment
2) To assume that PTSD is hereditary
3) Silliest of all, to assume that a country is a being, (I suppose Gvt, in
this case would be an entity as well, or Corporation, if we to follow this
odd logic)
Seems incredibly illogical to me. ?
I have many false selfs. The biggest is an American false self. After 9/11
I became aware of this, as I was a 21 year old student, with arabic roots,
living in the Netherlands. After 9/11 I lost the greatest love of all …
which is the love for myself. I wish America would heal, that seems easer
to me, than giving up my false self. Guess that says it all, doesn’t it? To
wake up one day and figure out that your greatest hero is actually a bully
sucks a lot.
cool, thanks
@momentinpassing I did in fact read your entire post. I thought it was
pointless and skirted the issue that I raised. Rather than addressing my
argument you side-tracked with a bunch of asinine crap about living beings
being the embodiment of dishonesty. WTF.
America is an empire, the debt based monetary system controlled by private
banks and the wealth extracted by them and the corporations threw campaign
finance and lobbyist has corrupted the political system, creating a fascist
state. Wealth is concentrated in the top ten percent of the population
leaving the rest as little more then salves. Should the US empire collapse
there is another waiting in the wing most likely China, America merely took
the place of the British empire after WWII
Genital mutilation/circumcision can cause PTSD. That is why the brain
attempts to block out the memory.
@DCLugi Hitler didn’t believe in superiority of his group. Instead, he
merely echoed the sentiments of American eugenicists who believed groups
could only be strong if they are homogeneous. That’s why he respected,
e.g., the Japanese…who FDR imprisoned for racial reasons. Remember,
Woodrow Wilson’s regime sterilized scores of “undesirables.” But, instead
we repeat nonsensical post-war propaganda about Hitler — e.g., the
so-called “holocaust.” Hence, your negative image of him.
@DCLugi I think Hitler and Goebbels used propaganda like any government
would, but contrasted with that of the other world powers, theirs was
probably the most truthful. At most, they embellished certain points.
Moreover, everything they said about the Marxists was proven true —
especially their genocides against ethnic Christians. To see how Roosevelt
deceived the American people into war, look on the Web for: “Franklin
Roosevelt’s ‘Secret Map’ speech” Nothing Hitler did even came close.
That was an interesting listen. I would have liked more information on the
protocol. A short saying oft contains much wisdom. Sophocles The only good
is knowledge & the only evil is ignorance. Socrates All paid jobs absorb &
degrade the mind. Aristotle The price good men pay for indifference to
public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato Just send your cash.
George Bush Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth. Publius Cornelius
Tacitus Your very silence shows you agree. Euripides
@unpopularchunk …dude, how do I get this.
i believe what you say is generally true. but i also believe that you are
trying push the responsibility for your situation away from yourself by
putting the responsibility on people who are far away from you and have
nothing to do with you. i believe that it would be smarter to ask yourself
what YOU can do to change your situation. it appears to me that you blame a
tiny minority for the suffering of a 99% majority and act as if the
majority had no respobsability for this.
@undefinedego He’s not saying “Americans have PTSD”, he’s saying “America
has PTSD”. The psychology certainly changes when you apply it to an
abstract concept rather than an individual.
The drug use in this country is a direct result of PTSD….
@LibertaerUeberAlles Was Roosevelt an AshkeNAZI fake jew?
Out of curiosity, what credibility and or connection to Dr. Omaha does Mr.
Molyneux have? Is he a behavioral psychologist as well?
Some ideas are interesting, nevertheless when he recommends a “mass”
therapy for a nation… Nice interview! Thanks,
I watched 15 minutes and turned it off. You can’t climb a forest and a
nation can’t have PTSD. PTSD describes the effects on trauma on an
individual. Dr.Omaha forces observations about society into a framework for
diagnosing an individual. No valid conclusions can come from this premise.
If he wants to make a case for national trauma, he needs to start clean. He
can’t just appropriate all of the research done on an existing condition
applying to individuals and expect it to remain valid.
@military911search It matters not. Let not those that would place a wedge
within your heart keep you from the kingdome.
@elieakaMrextreme So..someone who speaks out about a problem IS the
problem? Hmm..that would make G. Washington, et;al trouble makers huh? Ever
read The Chalice & the Blade? Nearly ALL cultures have their roots in
extreme, institutionalized brutality & trauma. Where & how did we get this
continent? Oh yeah, we committed GENOCIDE on the Natives. What can make up
for that? WW2? I don’t think so. The point is that we need to live in a
better way & doing the same things won’t bring change.
Nice interview Stef. Interesting subject and Interviewee. Thanks very much