Research Paper on:
Historical Overview of the US Progressive Movement

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The movement known as progressivism was one of the most interesting in American history in terms of its ideologies and impacts to American politics  and culture. Historian Daniel Rodgers argues that progressivism consisted of three "clusters of ideas": 1. anti-monopoly activism, 2. social control and cohesion, and 3. increased  efficiency. Rodgers further contends that the progressive movement extended well beyond the time frame to which it is relegated by most historians. He contended, in fact that the  ideologies of progressivism are inclusive of events such the Espionage and Sedition Act as well as the Schenck Decision as these events fall under the idea of social cohesion and  control. A detailed look at the circumstances and issues surrounding these events would concur with Rodgers assertion. Indeed, that assertion could be taken even further: to define  the Progressive Era as having extended through the U.S. involvement in World War I. The contention that the Progressive Movement in actuality extended  till the end of U.S. involvement in World War I can be validated by a number of observations. Indeed, the Progressive Movement played an extremely important role in American  society during the first twenty years of the twentieth century. There were numerous reasons for this but each centers around the growing industrialization of the country and the growing  population. Approximately nine million people immigrated to the country during the first decade of this century alone (Bureau of Electronic Publishing, 1990). Their arrival, and the high number  of domestic births which had existed since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. Manpower was a prerequisite to industrialization and the United States was teaming with men