Progressive Era Outline

I. Sources of Progressive Reform
A. Industrialization, with all its increase in productivity and the number of consumer goods, created
1) Unemployment and labor unrest
2) Wasteful use of natural resources
3) Abuses of corporate power
B. Growing cities magnified problems of poverty, disease, crime, and corruption
C. Influx of immigrants and rise of new managerial class upset traditional class alignments
D. Massive depression (1893-1897) convinced many that equal opportunity was out of reach for many Americans.
II. Who Were the Progressives?
A. New middle class composed of young profes…