'Progressive Era Dbq\r'

'Charlie Shinske During the liberalist Era, pressure from labor, suffrage, and conservation movements pro raisely changed the incline of the St take insn history. Many of the reformers ideas clashed with the male-dominated, capitalist scotch structure present at the turn of events of the century. Some of the intended reforms opposed the trustworthy system, besides the level of social tempestuousness necessitated change. Businessmen and activists alike initiated the reforms during the modern Era.Government, repayable to the intention of calming the common public and quieting the seemingly more and more point-blank middle  set, supported them from the year 1900 to 1920, Progressive Era reformers were successful in bring about reform to the United States. Socially, America was gaining strength, with women much(prenominal) as Jane Addams, a womens rights activist, accounting entry the progressive fight. The percent of bailable voters who pestle ballots in Presidential elections were at a manywhat steady rate from 1904 to 1916, ranging from 59-65%, but in the 1920 election, only 49% of eligible voters actually cast ballots. Document J) Although rough may argue that the percent moderate was due to most Americans not thirst any of the elected Presidential candidates, and wherefore not voting this is untrue because this was the premier election in which women could vote, which threw of the ratio of voters and non-voters. In addition, all four candidates running for the backup of President, Debs, Roosevelt, Wilson, and Taft, were all progressives, and wanted to reduce the sum of trusts. This gave all voters, men or women, some incentive to vote.In the end of the election, Woodrow Wilson won, but not with the majority. During Wilsons presidency, some women spoke out maxim that Wilson was â€Å"oppressing” them, and compared themselves to people being oppressed by Kaiser that were living Germany. (Document H) many female rights activists truism the government as putting them fine-tune that is why the passing of the 19th amendment caused such an uproar, women agreed and were excited with their new found power, but men were not beaming (mostly because women promoted prohibition).During this thirty year period in American history our country do major strides in working conditions, lesson values, and where we stood in the world’s commerce. We at present had a wealthy middle class that could sort of fend for themselves and we were working on making sure that the food we ate and the water we drank was healthy enough for us to drink. The U. S. was starting to boom, then came the depression.\r\n'