HIST 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reform Government Of New Zealand, Big Business, Muckraker
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Progressivism- movement that swept the field of american politics. Progressivism in the long view was a crusade of regeneration that runs from. It"s a(cid:374) atte(cid:373)pt for late vi(cid:272)toria(cid:374)s to re(cid:272)apture authority from industrialist. Big holding companies that managed to put up an umbrella of trust to smaller companies and eventually moved to capture all of the market. Fear of radicalism- labor radicals who disliked socialism. Politics of reform- many people talked about the business corruption of politics or a trend emerging after the civil war where growing institutions began to enter political life and eventually buy influence in the political realm. They would pay politicians to put forward acts to benefit them or their business. Progressive platforms- loose but powerful political movement that takes shaped in the 1890s. composed of respectable people who want to reform american politics in a way that they will maintain a prominent position of authority and power.
