The Progressive Era, 1900-1920

During week ten we discussed, The Progressive Era, 1900-1916. The Progressive Era was changes that occurred in the U.S. during the early 1900’s. The twentieth century began and America wanted to progress through social and political response of immigration, urbanization and growth of corporation (Zeide 10/21). There were many important people who emerged during this time from, journalists to female reformers, labor activists, and politicians. The Progressive Era was successful in many ways; Dubs, Du Bois, and Sinclair capture this illustration with week ten reading, Debs also argues about how socialism is best way to address the problems of the twentieth century. Progressive Era was new era that, American’s have never experienced before but was the start to fixing social, economical and other problems that country was facing. In Eugene v. Debs, from “The Outlook for Socialism in America”, Debs talks about how the difference between the political parties are neither parties involve no issue and do not pay attention to the working class (Debs 3). During this time period working conditions were poor and dangerous with low wages and salaries. More and more Americans were beginning to want change, however due to the corrupt government there was no change happening. Although at first there were no changes to
Washington. Although both Du Bois and Washington wanted racism to end and educational system for African Americans they had differences. W.E.B Du Bois was a civil rights rights leader who demanded civil rights right away, he believed first, political power, second, insistence on civil rights, third, higher education of Negro youth (Du Bois 5). While Booker T. Washington believed in the will to wait for civil rights and also promoted vocational education. Both gentlemen wanted change for the African American community during the Progressive Era but went about it in a different