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The Progressive Movement From 1901-1917

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From 1901-1917 was the progressive movement initiated as a response to political and corporate abuses at the turn of the twentieth century religious groups members of the press and radical political groups all cried out for reforms of the American capitalist economy to a call for the creation of a socialist government .President Theodore Roosevelt supported the movement by embracing environmental conservation ,forcing arbitration .

Progressives wanted to reform elections to make them fairer and to make politicians more accountable to voters .they pushed for the direct primary ,an election in which voters choose candidates to run in a general election . Progressives also backed the seventeenth amendment ,ratified in 1913. There's 3 type

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