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The Progressive Reform Era
This manuscript uses effective examples and explanations to justify the efforts of the Progressive Reform Era in the United States. By evaluating the challenges faced by the American citizens after the Civil War, it puts emphasis on the essence of the efforts of progressive reformers in improving the living standards of the general population and bringing sanity to the economic, social, and political domains of the nation. To begin with, it is obvious that the main challenges facing the country during this period related to the overwhelming number of immigrants as well as the quest for economic expansion. This era comprised of a well-established capitalist movement, an aspect that resulted in a wide gap between the rich and the less privileged in the American society. The corrupt economic and political elites used their positions to increase their financial capabilities and exploit the desperate population.
Similar to the ideology that portrayed the United States as a ‘melting pot’, the Settlement House Movement sought to infiltrate American values and principles into the immigrants. One of the effects of such efforts was the exploitation of laborers. The management of the trusts took advantage of the poor people by depriving them of their civil liberties and disregarding the policies on child labor. Accordingly, the essay portrays progressivism as a movement aimed at fighting for the rights of the general population. It pressurized the federal government to focus its operations on the benefits and needs of the public. This resulted in effective laws ending child labor and promoting proper working conditions and earnings for the laborers in the industrial subsections. Additionally, the essay sums up the effects of the progressive movement by highlighting the attained distribution of wealth through the suppression of the capitalist ideologies in the American society.