The Progressive Era, was a time when the United States was becoming more and more industrialized and urbanized. While the industrialization and urbanization of the U.S. did in fact help “millions,” many more people faced problems, like “monopoly, political corruption, business corruption, and social injustice.” The reformers, an outcome of the progressive era, were people striving to fix the problems created by the progressive era. From bad neighborhoods, to family planning, even as far as social justice. Some popular reformers, like Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson fought for social and political change. Many journalists tried to expose big businesses, like Upton Sinclair. Female Activists fought for …show more content…
Jane Addams, the creator of Hull House, one of the first and most famous settlements at the time, which “served as a spark plug for community improvement and political reform.” Despite her struggles to keep it open during the depression, the Hull House became a place where working class Americans could get the “resources to fulfill those needs, as well as a political voice.” Another successful reformation was that of Margaret Sanger. Margaret was a nurse who did not agree with the Comstock Law, which prohibited writing about “obscene” things, like birth control. Many women lived in the dark and in “ignorance of their sex functions” during this time period, and she hoped to let women know they had a choice. Because in her time period, “large families and poverty went hand in hand,” more mouths to feed less money to do so. She later published “What Every Girl Should Know,” which violated the Comstock Law, and led to a “National Birth Control Movement.” While many reformations were successful, many more were not. Like the Industrial Reformation, while the outcomes were great, more machine ability and mass transportation, the effects on the working class and the cities were not. Poverty and illness rates rose, while the machines and cities also did. Was it worth deaths of thousands? Another unsuccessful movement during the Progressive Era was in fact the Prohibition Reforms.While Prohibition