Political Movement, A Road That Never Ends

The modern California emerged from the progressive era and World War 1, an important economic transformation and dramatic population change were under way. New, thriving industries in oil and the making of motion pictures turned Los Angeles into a booming manufacturing city just as a new migration brought hundreds of thousands of residents to the region. The decade after World War 1 was one of rapid economic development, marked by the evolution of modern, large-scale business organizations and the pervasive influence of the automotive. The railroad era and the Progressive era has contributed the transformation of modern California in the first half of the 20th century.

Throughout America's history, there have been numerous social and political movements that have had a profound and lasting impact on American culture. Movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Suffrage Movement have influenced and shaped American ideals and beliefs. These movements were typically driven by a cause. From the 1890s to the 1920s, a period of social and political reform flourished in America. This was driven by the desire to eliminate corruption in the government. People wanted to have a positive impact on society and they wanted to speak up for what they believed in. This era was a pivotal turning point in the history of the United States. This era was known as the Progressive Era.

Prosperity in farming During the late 1920s,

The Civil War changed and molded the nation onto a path never taken before the Gilded Age, leading to the use of machinery, agricultural advances, and monopolies. Farmers and industrial laborers noticed something in common- the growth of the United States was rapidly moving westward: in size, population, opportunity, and technological advances. With this rapid growth steadily increasing, industrial workers became frustrated with the unsafe workplaces, limited rights, and long shifts with low pay. Farmers recognized the growing need for agriculture in the west as the nation was expanding, but ran into trouble as the realization set in that monopolies were influencing nearly every aspect of the United State’s government and economy. The Gilded

The profound impacts he made on shaping California after World War II begun during his time as California’s Attorney General and continued with him into his Governorship. With World War II ending California would continue to experience an unpredictable expansion socially, economically, and also set a proactive state government which was led by the Governor during this time of change. Since California was experiencing a time of expansion, re-shaping its post war economy and continuing thriving programs were crucial. California Progressivism was key behind all of these movements which ultimately shifted California’s role in the nation and gave the sense that the war was a defining moment in the state’s history. A new economy allowed for many of the state’s original industries helped in the post war growth. These industries established themselves during the war unlike other industries throughout the country, and by doing so helped the state more post war.

"The Progressive Movement The Progressives dominated reformation of American life from 1840 to 1914. The goal of the Progressive Era was to fix the political, economic and social injustices that took place during the Industrial Revolution. College professors, lawyers, doctors, writers, church officials, and the middle class were involved considerably in the late 19th yet early 20th century. Due to the widespread influence of the progressives, many U.S. presidents were known to create a platform of shared interest.

America’s climb to the top all began during this big Progressive movement. Many great men and women fought during this time to get what they wanted, and to make their home great. Ultimately it’s a hard decision for me to pick what my job would have been back then. There are so many meaningful ones, but I think I would have been a farmer at the time. Seems like it would have been the safest, and most meaningful job that I would have wanted to rely on to take care of my family with. That may come as a surprise, but the farmers did make a decent living, and worked very hard each day to maintain their huge farms.

The rapid industrialization of United States in the late part of the 19th Century challenged the political, economic and judicial system in every possible way. The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson weakened the executive branch for many years until President Theodore Roosevelt came into power. A new progressive movement of positive government started emerging at both federal and state level. This government was ought to take a more proactive role to reform government that could address the new needs of society, like the access to public education, better economic policies to benefit the middle class, improve their working conditions, and access to health care.

The Progressive Movement was a short yet very important time in American society. The time period known as “Reconstruction” had now finished and the lives of many had been changed due to political corruption, social injustices, and harsh labor practices. The Progressive Movement aimed to correct all of these issues and to just improve the overall way of living for the average United States citizen. Although the Progressive Movement did succeed in tweaking and revamping many of the issues that had been a problem in the lives of many Americans, it unfortunately was only temporary seeing as soon after the U.S. enters another war and inevitably after that, the Great Depression. Nevertheless, the progressive movement did succeed in addressing these

The progressive movement was one of the greatest times in America’s history, not only was the progressive movement noble but also needed especially after the lasting effects of the Civil War. Although there were many problems still plaguing the United States the progressive movement provided some Americans with a sense of hope because of changes in politics. First of all, progressive Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson would not necessarily fight for their own political parties, but would fight for the people, reduce the power of big businesses that exploited their employees and helped small businesses by introducing antitrust legislation. Women’s rights also became a huge issue during the progressive movement which would be solved by granting women more rights and even giving Americans the right to directly select senators. Basically the progressive movement was beneficial to America because it gave more Americans more opportunities, like being able to vote, being able to make decent wages and small business to be able to compete.

During the 1870s to 1930, California agriculture had become a most diverse region of the United States. Its wheat, meat, and crop farming, such as grapes, walnuts, almonds, tomatoes, potatoes, watermelons, plums, etc., became the California’s major export industry, as well as nation’s leading producer. According to The Elusive Eden by Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough, and Richard J. Orsi, the number of farm in 1925 had grown to more than 136,400 farms, worth than $708 million. Besides the enormous development of the agriculture, California had become the one of the best manufacturing and trading states in America. It dominated the manufacturing industry and trading companies for aircraft factories, lumber factories, steel plants, mining companies, petroleum companies, etc., According to Eric Foner in Give Me Liberty - volume 2, by 1945, California had received one-tenth of all federal spending, and Los Angeles had become the nation’s second largest manufacturing center (863). Paralleled with the economic development were a numerous of organization have been found in California in order to control, regulate, and support the commercial and trading activities, such as the California Fruit Growers’ Exchange, the Representative Assembly of Trade and Labor Unions, the Coast Seamen’s Association, the Federated Iron Trade Council, etc., Although the political reforms in the early 20th century could not address the most of the economic problems and social changes in America, the

The Populists and Progressive were two major movements that occurred during the outbreaks of the workers union after the civil war. The populists began during the late 1800s and the progressives began during the 1900s. There are many differences between these two movements, but yet both of these movements have many things in common. During this time, farmers united to protect their interests by creating a major political party. This party was known as the Peoples Party, which became known as the Populist Party. Populists drew their strength from rural areas as many Populists tended to mostly be poor and uneducated. They had ideas such as government ownership of major industries. Progressives, also affected by industrialization, began their movements in order to reestablish their society.

The Progressive era was a time when middle-class citizens, reform groups, and women were inspired to take back control of our nation in several ways (Schultz, 2013). The individuals or groups that were involved in the reform efforts felt as though the government should take more of a hand in solving the issues that were facing our society while keeping order and ensuring the protection of Americans with political reform. One of the first reforms that took place was due to our population in the US growing. This nation more than doubled in about three years, and the reformers had already started looking for new ideas to resolve the issues of collecting trash, cleaning streets and the school systems. At this point, the most successful resolution

Progressivism began as a social movement to later become a political movement. The Progressives in fact continued a legacy that the many problems our society was faced with could be mainly addressed by getting involved and creating a safe efficient environment for all. In many cases the topic of the responsibility of the government and the lower class came into the movement. I definitely agree with the Progressives point of view on the topic of responsibility and the role the government has in it. The government in all cases has the ability and in fact an obligation to take notice in regard to the fact that sometimes depending on the circumstance individuals need help but in all cases to where it is highly needed of course. The government also

Can a social movement be fundamentally flawed? Most people would answer “yes,” pointing to National Socialism or the Ku Klux Klan. However, few would consider the German New Left to epitomize a flawed social movement. According to history professor Dagmar Herzog, they should. Throughout her publication Sex After Fascism, Herzog disputes this central argument of the New Left: “Numerous New Leftists argued directly that sexuality and politics were causally linked; convinced that sexual repression produced racism and fascism, they proposed that sexual emancipation would further social and justice” (2). Although the baby boomers equated sex with anti-fascism, presuming that the Nazis had created the sexually repressive environment, Herzog argues that the repressive environment was actually established in reaction to National Socialism. The most homicidal regime in history was more sexually liberal than the New Left conceived (3). What Herzog overlooks, however, is that not all baby boomers succumbed to this fundamental misconception, as evidenced by the 1974 feature film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the film depicts a romance between Emmy—who’s an elderly German widow—and the title character—who’s a Moroccan guest worker. Throughout Ali, Emmy faces prejudice for being in an interracial relationship, but as film theorist Thomas Wartenberg argues, the film is far from sympathetic to the elderly widow. In fact, Fassbinder’s film