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Why have historians found it impossible to agree on any single explanation for the rise of the progressivism in the early twentieth century and on any single profile of the progressives?
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Michael Mckenzie 99405076 HI2008 Dr Walsh Why have historians found it impossible to agree on any single explanation for the rise of the progressivism in the early twentieth century and on any single profile of the progressives? Historians and social commentators from the years immediately following the Progressive Era have seen it as a movement motivated by contempt for "the unfettered power of large corporations and against the political institutions that negated democracy."1 The question on which this essay is based highlights the fact that this no longer the only or most generally accepted view of the Progressive Movement as a whole. It can, and often is, said that the only thing that justifies the term movement in this label is the fact that at last some of the Progressives shared the same goals. These aims are generally said to be as follows: 1. To decrease the role of interest groups in government. 2....
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