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Question

The progressive era lasted during which of the following dates?
A.1840-1890
B.1850-1870
C.1890-1954
D.1900-1954
E.None of the above

Answer 1

c. 1890-1954

In the United States, the Progressive Era was a period of reform which lasted from the 1890s through the 1920s. The reformers advocated the Efficiency Movement. Progressives assumed that anything old was encrusted with inefficient and useless practices. A scientific study of the problem would enable experts to discover the "one best solution." Progressives strongly opposed waste and corruption, and tended to assume that opponents were motivated by ignorance or corruption. They sought change in all policies at all levels of society, economy and government. Initially the movement was successful at local level, and then it progressed to state and gradually national. The reformers (and their opponents) were predominantly members of the middle class. Most were well educated, white, Protestants who lived in the cities. Catholics, Jews and African Americans had their own versions of the Progressive Movement. See George Cardinal Mundelein, Oscar Straus and Booker T. Washington.

Women came to the fore in the Progressive era and proved their value as social workers. The Progressives pushed for social justice, general equality and public safety, but there were contradictions within the movement, especially regarding race. The Catholics had their own version of the movement which they applied to their schools, colleges, and hospitals.

Almost all major politicians declared their adherence to some progressive measures. In politics the most prominent national figures were Republicans Theodore Roosevelt and Robert LaFollette and Democrats William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson.

Important reforms, (in the minds of the progressives) that were achieved at the national levels included Prohibition with the 18th Amendment and women's suffrage through to the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, both in 1920 as well as the Income Tax with the Sixteenth Amendment and direct election of Senators with the Seventeenth Amendment. Prohibition brought about mobsters and a crime wave and violent street battles over turf, and was repealed.

Muckrakers were journalists who exposed waste, corruption and scandal in the highly influential new medium of national magazines, such as McClure's. Progressives shared a common belief in the ability of science, technology and disinterested expertise to identify all problems and come up with the one best solution.

Progressives moved to enable the citizenry to rule more directly and circumvent political bosses; California, Wisconsin and Oregon took the lead. California and Oregon established the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall. About 16 states began using Primary elections. Many cities set up municipal reference bureaus to study the budgets and administrative structures of local governments. In Illinois governor Frank Lowden undertook a major reorganization of state government. In Wisconsin, the stronghold of Robert LaFollette, the Wisconsin Idea, inspired by Charles McCarthy, used the state university as the source of ideas and expertise

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Answer 2

C

"In the United States, the Progressive Era was a period of reform which lasted from the 1890s through the 1920s."

Answer 3

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Answer 4

E. None of the above.

Answer 5

C

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