Progressivism As A Forward Looking Movement
“Progressives were optimistic and forward-looking.” Progressives sought to correct the evils of their present time in the hopes of creating a promising future for America. They looked at modern problems and sought to correct them so that the future Americans would never have to deal with them. Utopians like Edward Bellamy and his followers are evidence of the forward-looking progressives. They envisioned a new America in the future that would no longer have any problems. Progressives believed that America’s laissez-faire, or “let-alone” policy, was ineffective. They believed that it was time to fix the problems that America faced before they got even more out of control. Muckrakers, like Ida M. Tarbell and Upton Sinclair, wrote to show the American public that reform was needed. The reaction of the public was so great that the progressives became a majority rather than a minority. “There wer
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