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Review of America's Progressive Era

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fires, avarice, greed, oppression of women. Sound like something cut from todays headlines? Think again. It was all a part of the cultural, socio-economic, and political climate ironically called, The  Progressive Era. SOCIAL ISSUES AND DOMESTIC POLICIES There was a price to pay for the industrial progress of this era. Unfortunately, those who shouldered the largest burden of the  cost were the disenfranchised farmers, who innocently thinking they would better their way of living, moved in droves to the cities. However, the internal conditions of the cities, in the  form of slums, were appalling to say the least. Many have speculated that if it were not for some social and economic reforms that came at that time (called the  Progressive Movement) that there may very well have been some sort of internal revolt by the working poor. Interestingly enough, with the increased ability of magazines and newspapers to be  distributed and purchased, journalists enjoyed an audience like no other time in history, therefore, what they reported included investigative stories exposing the fraud, corruption and avarice in some of the  government, big businesses, and even in the community organizations. It can be stated that because of their exposure of such internal decay in these systems that changes were made. However,  as progressive as it may have seemed at the time, in hind sight, it may have only served to make matters worse. Immigration was high and nearly  thirteen million people, between the years of 1900 and 1914 left Europe for the United States(American Cultural History, 2002). In the West, the Homestead Act sent a good deal of  people out west hoping to claim some land for their own. With all this shifting of families and the influence of the steady and strong influx of immigrants, each