1) The Progressive reform movement can be best described as an approach to make life better and for people to be able to get away from unjust and problems faced. Progressivism was a reform movement concerned with curing ills caused by industrialization. The Progressive reform movement focused on rural problems and suburban problems, but for the most part the Progressive reform movement focused on Urban problems. Some examples of urban problems that the Progessive reform movement focused on were; unsafe working as well a living conditions, bad sanitization, corrupt political machines and many more problems like these. The Progressive reform movement was known as the age of reform. A guy named John Dewy was an example of a Progressive philosopher who argued reformers together and showed them data about society ills through observations and experimentations.
2) TR, Taft, and Wilson are all a legacy and are called the Prgressive Presidents. These three men are called the Progressive Presidents because TR, Taft, and Wilson were presidents right after the Gilded Age and all of them wanted to bring about change to the world. These great men wanted to change abuses that occurred in America. President Teddy Roosevelt came up with the Square Deal which was a campaign slogan that he used in 1904. President Teddy Roosevelt said that “ see to it that every man has a squared deal no less or more”. President Roosevelt was a progressive which meant he wanted to change the world in a positive manner. Teddy expaned the Federal Government powers and he saw his presidency as “Bully Pulpit”, Teddy could influence news and shape legislation. Some of the things and changes that president Teddy Roosevelt did were that he filed 44 anitrust suits, took Anti- Trust Action, came up with the Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Pure Food and Drug Act and also the National Conservation.
President Taft was also a progressive and wanted to change the unjust in society. President