By: Ardis E. Parshall - January 09, 2017 The “Progressive Era” is a term applied to the period of the 1890s through the 1920s in the United States, a time when Americans believed that by working together, using capital and labor and science and education and technology, we could stamp out corruption in politics, rein in the excesses of conspicuous consumption, improve the public health, and cure problems caused by urbanization, indus...
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