HIS271Y1 Lecture : The Progressive Era
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think about what these new frontiers had in com mon. the search for new frontiers was one way americans responded to the anxieties created by the intense industrialization/urbanization. Today: other americans, instead of looking outward to frontiers, looked inside to reform. 1900 1917, however many of the movements started before 1900 and continued after 1917. numerous reform groups with the shared goal of improving society. far more successes at the local level, but the successes at the national level were the ones that mattered. while the term progressive era gives the sense of progress", not everything was progressive www. notesolution. com. by the turn of the century it was generally accepted that industrialization and urbanization had negative impacts on society. contemporaries hoped that the federal government would, but they found again and again this just wasn"t the case. Increasingly, people began to take it upon themselves to reform society.
