The Early Progressive Era

Favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas is a progressive Ideal. Progressive Ideals have been used all the time throughout history. What makes a progressive, is when someone takes their ideas and takes action in trying to make them happen. Two certain people that fall in the categorizes of developing progressive Ideals is, muckraker, Thomas Nast, and cartoonist Dr. Suess. In more than one ways than another, both of these people have created a difference in the world in quite similar ways, but for different reasons.

The Early progressive era, or also known as a period of widespread social activism and political reform, started from the early 1890s to the 1920’s. The main goal of the progressive movement was to eliminate the corruption within the government. The movement mostly targeted political machines and their bosses. By taking down these corrupt representatives in office a further means of direct democracy would be established. Beyond that, they also sought regulation of monopolies and corporations through anti trust laws. The New Progressivism was associated with the following presidents; Theodore Roosevelt. William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt and Taft are best known for invoking antitrust legislation to break up large corporations that had
Seuss was an American writer and illustrator best known for authoring popular children books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. In more than many ways, Dr. Seuss was very similar to Thomas Nast. His work includes several of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death. As World War II began, Geisel turned to political cartoons, drawing over 400 in two years as editorial cartoonist for the left-leaning New York City daily newspaper, Geisel's political cartoons, later published in Dr. Seuss goes to war denounced Hitler and Mussolini and were highly critical of