Progressive Reform Movement

Throughout history many interpretations of the Progressive Movement and its goals and motives have been produced. Historians during different ages have analysisd the different aspects of the progressives and what made them who they where. This paper will classify and analyze each of the assigned historians to fully understand an important time in history.

When it comes to the Progressive Movement and it’s specific politics many historians provide different causes and influences. Who were the progressives, what did they accomplish? J. Joseph Huthmacher contends that the progressives were mainly lower class citizen’s who were part of the ever so growing melting pot of the industrialized America. Huthmacher writes about how the middle class helped the cause, but it was the lower class who had the most bearing on the issue, and who would be the most affected. He points out as he queries “How does one explain the fact that in the legislature of New York and Massachusetts many reform bills received more uniform and consistent support from representatives of urban lower class then they received from the urban middle class or rural representatives.”(Huthmacker) It seems logical tha

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Approximate Word count = 958
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)