Progressives also fought for women's suffrage BUT the elimination of supposedly corrupt black voters from the election booth. Racism is not a democratic feature.
Trust busting, regulations to control big business abuse, prohibition, woman's suffrage, national & municipal parks, social work, child labor laws, organized labor--all these were democratic ideas. …show more content…
Prohibition was democratic, even if it was a mistake. Municipal reform and anti-corrpution efforts may not have been particularly democratic, but they were the right thing to do. The same could be said in the push for increased scientific