Progressive Era: Help or Repress

The Progressive era lasted from 1900 to 1920 and renewed America's sense of protest and reform. It was a result from deterioration in conditions of urban areas. Appalled by the poverty afflicting many Americans, middle and upper class progressive groups joined together to plan certain social and economic reforms. They sought to eliminate practices harming farmers, workers, tenement dwellers, and consumers and to expand government regulation over our economy so as to further the public interest. State regulation of railroads and public utilities improved service and reduced rates because of…