Essay On Progressivism During The Gilded Age

Progressivism was the rapid growth movement during the Gilded Age which changed America from a simple nation to an Urbanized and Industrialized Nation with so much wealth. This movement was when people favored change and improvement during this time period. It was not usual to let things stay the way they were, especially in political matters. It was ‘against’ the people to maintain the way things were that time, especially in politics. There were a lot of issues during this time. There was a lot of corruption, child labor, problems in urbanization, horrible working conditions, horrible living conditions and many more. The main issues that the Progressive movement should address during the Gilded Age are government, working conditions, and wealth.
Government during the Gilded Age was terrible. Corruption was everywhere, in the political world and the business world. As said on The Article on Tweed "multitudinous officials of the city were the Tweed Ring's slave." What the government officials were really doing was that they were giving jobs to anybody who would vote for them. Which was horrible because if one was not qualified, as long as they voted, they have a job. As said on The People's Party Platform "Corruption dominates the ballot box." A lot of people had been ‘bribed’ to vote for
The government was very corrupt and incredibly powerful. Working Conditions was horrible, children were expected to work in the breaker where there was such a horrible working environment, same with the adults were they were so ‘ignorant’ to sanitation in any factories. Wealth was a big thing, the wealthier one was the people saw them more powerful than the average person during this time. Wealthier people were incredibly powerful in the business and political world. Those were the issues that the Progressive movement should have had