How The Gilded Age Was Progressive
PROGRESSIVE ERA THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Themes of the progressive era
Introduction
This was an age of social involvement and political progression in the United States between the period of 1890 and 1920s. The main reason for undergoing this process was to purify the government by making efforts to eliminate corruption by revealing the political masters and machines. A large number of citizens supported the movement to ensure the elimination of the political masters that concentrated in public houses. Women’s suffrage was noticeable that was aimed at ensuring purer women’s participation in the field. The movement began at the local levels and grew up to the national levels. Besides the …show more content…
The gilded age had many problems that made people to push to an era with little or no social and political problems. Some of the problems of the gilded age included; the economic retardation of the southern parts of the States, the African-Americans of the south being denied power to take part in political activities, and racism. The problems prevailed after two nationwide panics affected the growth in this period. The gilded period had two noticeable divisions: the Mugwumps who were extremely rich and had no support from most people because they considered elitists (Kunitz, 1974). The other group was the agrarian laborers who lacked power and their movements could not succeed. In the progressive era, the reformers built a coalition, which combined the Mugwumps and the labor unionists. Because of the combination, the coalition was less focused. There were conflicts in the coalitions that led to compromises, little disagreements, and little solutions to the problems (Jeff, …show more content…
The first one was the tariffs that saw him reduce and increase duties on some items and made some items free. The second privilege was banking. This is because Owen believed that it was important to have material reserves that would serve in case of economic depressions. This led to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System. Owen also had other reforms such as loan acts that enabled farmers to get loans at low rates, compensation of civil servants during their disability periods, an eight hour working day for the civil servants with extra pay in case they worked overtime and laws against child labor (Jeff,
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Date:
First Paper
Themes of the progressive era
Introduction
This was an age of social involvement and political progression in the United States between the period of 1890 and 1920s. The main reason for undergoing this process was to purify the government by making efforts to eliminate corruption by revealing the political masters and machines. A large number of citizens supported the movement to ensure the elimination of the political masters that concentrated in public houses. Women’s suffrage was noticeable that was aimed at ensuring purer women’s participation in the field. The movement began at the local levels and grew up to the national levels. Besides the …show more content…
The gilded age had many problems that made people to push to an era with little or no social and political problems. Some of the problems of the gilded age included; the economic retardation of the southern parts of the States, the African-Americans of the south being denied power to take part in political activities, and racism. The problems prevailed after two nationwide panics affected the growth in this period. The gilded period had two noticeable divisions: the Mugwumps who were extremely rich and had no support from most people because they considered elitists (Kunitz, 1974). The other group was the agrarian laborers who lacked power and their movements could not succeed. In the progressive era, the reformers built a coalition, which combined the Mugwumps and the labor unionists. Because of the combination, the coalition was less focused. There were conflicts in the coalitions that led to compromises, little disagreements, and little solutions to the problems (Jeff, …show more content…
The first one was the tariffs that saw him reduce and increase duties on some items and made some items free. The second privilege was banking. This is because Owen believed that it was important to have material reserves that would serve in case of economic depressions. This led to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System. Owen also had other reforms such as loan acts that enabled farmers to get loans at low rates, compensation of civil servants during their disability periods, an eight hour working day for the civil servants with extra pay in case they worked overtime and laws against child labor (Jeff,