... , melting pot of many diverse ethnicities. The whole mentality of the Progressive Era, despite the diversity within the different groups, was the common interest of improving life in the industrial age. The Progressives wanted to build on the existing society. With the exclusion of this common goal, the Progressives couldn't agree on the ills of society, and therefore, were never completely ... equal rights of all its citizens."" (2). This was evidently true, that is until Theodore Roosevelt came along. At that point, presidential leadership was much better than it was in the Gilded Age....

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