... and to expose and eliminate the pervasive corruption among the business and political elite. Many Progressives, like Croley, were optimistic about improving society. They questioned laissez faire and Social Darwinism, and believed that government, with influence from Progressives, could make positive and powerful reforms. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant and renowned journalist who's influential book How the ... McElvaine 23). Legislation that served to help the jobless was, namely, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, and the Wagner Act. Most notable amongst all the social help legisla...

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... society into a consumer culture. Americans began to have time off from work, spending it enjoying sports, shopping, dancing, and music (Fink 325). Historians exalted, "a collapsing older social divisions based on region, ethnicity, class, and sex. The new leisure and commercial empires exercised a powerful nationalizing force within the culture (Fink 325)." This nationalist sentiment allowed ... , consumers, employees, citizens, and parents." The start of the 20th century began a surge of reform movements, most significantly brought forth by the educated muckraking journalists, social wo...

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... society into a consumer culture. Americans began to have time off from work, spending it enjoying sports, shopping, dancing, and music (Fink 325). Historians exalted, "a collapsing older social divisions based on region, ethnicity, class, and sex. The new leisure and commercial empires exercised a powerful nationalizing force within the culture (Fink 325)." This nationalist sentiment allowed ... , consumers, employees, citizens, and parents." The start of the 20th century began a surge of reform movements, most significantly brought forth by the educated muckraking journalists, social wo...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate