Progressive Era

Progressivism was shaped around core ideas: 1) a commitment to social justice; and 2) a search for order and for the restoration of the social order. The goals of the Progressive movement involved specific needs in society at the time, needs brought about by a long period of neglect during the time when the country was becoming industrialized and urbanized: 1) housing in cities; 2) an end to government corruption; 3) build better schools; 4) eliminate poverty; 5) abolish child labor and regulate women's work; and 6) regulate men's work. By the turn of the century America had changed profoundly, as had its problems. Americans were becoming more aware of the fact that they had yet to accommodate to these changes or to adapt their laws and techniques of government to a new age of large and complex organizations: "They had yet to fulfill their national promise of individual liberty, opportunity, and dignity for men and women" (Blum et al. 495). Effecting these changes was the overall goal of the Progressives.

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moral foundation or a sense of direction: The 1920s was a period dedicated to knowledge and experience and the effective use of both. It spent considerable time, energy, and talent in trying to mend what had become apparent to many, each often in his own way, as a broken world (Susman 120). Between the two World Wars, the major worldwide event was the Great Depression, an event for which the seeds were sown by the First world War and which in turn contributed to many of the forces that would lead to World War II. The Great Depression in the 1930s signaled a world economic disorder that was difficult for the various countries of the world to weather and that presented them with a problem they only dimly understood.The Depression had different effects in different countries and affected different parts of the world more or less severely, but taken altogether the forces unleashed would collide over the decade of the 1930s to produce political as well as economic dislocation and tension. The popular culture was more and more aware of its effect on the masses and of a need to reflect certain attitudes on the one hand and to deny them on the other. That is, popular culture reflected the realities of the Depression while also offeri
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