The Populist Movement: The Progressive Movement

Three different political movements; the Populist, Labor, and Progressive, occurred between 1892 and 1912, that had well thought intentions on taking care of the workers, including children who made large profits by working extraordinary shifts and in unsafe conditions for big manufactures. Only the Progressive movement was successful in moving into the mainstream political limelight and gained acceptance throughout the nation.
The Populist movement worked on the platform of helping the farmers. They did not want to see big government and big money come in and take what was theirs. The movement highlighted that people were being silenced from speaking their minds, labor workmen were being impoverished and being denied the right to organize for self-protection and corruption dominated the whole government system thereby adding millions to the manufactures on the backs of the overworked workmen. The man who became the face of the Populist movement in the late 1800s – early 1900s, was William Jennings Bryan, whose fiery
A fight for the little man, a fight against selfish men, a fight our founding fathers worked for when they laid the foundations of this nation. The movement had what the other movements did not; political clout. Proponents like Theodore Roosevelt, who was considerably outspoken about the clamoring’s of the industry and maintained that prosperity can permanently come to this country only on the basis of honesty and of fair treatment to all (Roosevelt, 1912). Lastly, the movement made it to the pinnacle of political stature when Woodrow Wilson, a progressive party member, became the 28th President of the United States. Several of the initiatives that the platform stood behind and are still active today, became enacted because of his