How might the events of 1919 and 1920 be considered the end of the progressive era?
How might the events of 1919 and 1920 be considered the end of the progressive era?
With the war at an end, it was time to cut loose, so those policies went by the wayside.
Also wtih Harding and the Ohio Gang in charge, corruption was the key word
With the war at an end, it was time to cut loose, so those policies went by the wayside.
Also wtih Harding and the Ohio Gang in charge, corruption was the key word
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The "Progressive" era doesn’t have a set beginning, not has there been an end to it. As the current events in Congress and with President Obama have shown, some people in government think that they are still carrying on the ideals of the "progressives."
It’s really peculiar [and mostly unpalatable] to learn that many of the "progressive" ideals originated in pre-World War One Germany. The Good Old U. S. of A. picked them up and enhanced them with concepts such as the "science" of eugenics. Six million people died in Hitler’s Germany somewhat after that — for the "progressive" ideal of purifying the race. That’s pretty good evidence that the "progressive era" didn’t end in 1919 or 1920. Some are trying to carry it on now. In the 2008 primaries, Hilary Clinton proclaimed that she didn’t want to be seen so much as a Democrat as, she said she preferred, a "progressive."
No political philosophy ever ends, they just go underground or have very few followers for a while. Then the children or students of those few followers emerge to reassert that philosophy. After all, Woodrow Wilson, America’s premier progressive, lost his mind by 1919 (or much before) and died in 1924. Yet today’s progressives still insist upon inflicting his political objectives on us for the usual progressive reason: they are smarter than anyone else and, therefore, they — even as a small minority of our otherwise more knowledgeable population — should dictate what our laws, morals and lives should be.
The end of the progressive era? Not yet, but, hopefully, soon.
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After a continental war that decimated europe and caused just as much affliction in the united states, the united states’ government decided to remain nuetral in worldly affairs and focus more on its self, the progressive movement is based mainly on better living, womens suffrage, industry, (economic attributes) the time after, the roaring twentys. a boom in american culture. new dress styles, new music, automobiles (allowed for more liesure activities and expansion of living areas). these things that american culture focused on, differed from the ideals of the progressive area.
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