HIST 2057 Chapter : Reform And Progressivism
Document Summary
Populist is backward looking-preserve older style of economy and society like agriculture. Their unsuccessful because it is always changing; cant go back in time. Progressives go about seeking reform in a modern way: the problems of industrial society: Magazine and newspaper articles are illustrating the problems that modern industrial society express. American society like how the owners of corporations are making all this money and then how the lower workers are barely surviving. Photographs of children working in mines or factories showing harsh conditions. Novelist writing fictional accounts of real situations. (characters are made up). Poverty, inequality, and a dismantled distribution of wealth. Populist wanted to go back to a more democratic community based idea. Progressives were all about using modern techniques in order to gain a more efficient society. Herbert croly, the promise of american life (1909)-get more people to participate in the workings of government.
