Progressivism
The Era of Progressivism
The Progressive Era, an era that began the movement in reconstructing the nation’s problems which resulted from industry. This progression made, was to better the lives of American workers. The main goal was to fix the abuses caused by the industry. Progressivism was influenced by the middleclass, and it evolved from local level to the state and finally to the national level. The Progressive movement challenged the status quo in every facet of American life. The era of progressive reform was successful in bringing about effective changes economically and politically because of regulation of big business and growth of democracy. Nonetheless, now to introduce the many social problems of poverty, labor conditions, economic inequality and political corruption of this era. First and foremost, who ever thought birth control and abortion would have to be an option? Well, if you could not afford to provide for your own health, you should not be able to bring a newborn at this period. In the article, “The Case for Birth Control” by Margaret Sanger speaks of how the lives of many in this progressive ere are struggle to live and she provides a solution to stop the over population and that newborn babies should not undergo a cruel lifestyle. She states, “At present, for the poor mother, there is only one alternative to the necessity of bearing children year after year, regardless of her health, of the welfare of the children she already has, and of the income of the family. This alternative is abortion…” in my opinion, no one should have to fall to this, but at this time the population was growing to rapidly and parents who could not even provide for their selves should had this as a only option (Sanger, pg 1). Sanger saw this as way to improve and progress America to bring it back into position of steadiness. Sanger also addresses that “When children are conceived in love and born into an atmosphere of happiness, then will parenthood be
The Progressive Era, an era that began the movement in reconstructing the nation’s problems which resulted from industry. This progression made, was to better the lives of American workers. The main goal was to fix the abuses caused by the industry. Progressivism was influenced by the middleclass, and it evolved from local level to the state and finally to the national level. The Progressive movement challenged the status quo in every facet of American life. The era of progressive reform was successful in bringing about effective changes economically and politically because of regulation of big business and growth of democracy. Nonetheless, now to introduce the many social problems of poverty, labor conditions, economic inequality and political corruption of this era. First and foremost, who ever thought birth control and abortion would have to be an option? Well, if you could not afford to provide for your own health, you should not be able to bring a newborn at this period. In the article, “The Case for Birth Control” by Margaret Sanger speaks of how the lives of many in this progressive ere are struggle to live and she provides a solution to stop the over population and that newborn babies should not undergo a cruel lifestyle. She states, “At present, for the poor mother, there is only one alternative to the necessity of bearing children year after year, regardless of her health, of the welfare of the children she already has, and of the income of the family. This alternative is abortion…” in my opinion, no one should have to fall to this, but at this time the population was growing to rapidly and parents who could not even provide for their selves should had this as a only option (Sanger, pg 1). Sanger saw this as way to improve and progress America to bring it back into position of steadiness. Sanger also addresses that “When children are conceived in love and born into an atmosphere of happiness, then will parenthood be