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James Dean

During the Progressive movement there were a wide range of social, economic, and cultural changes. Ignited by the rapid growth of industrialism, city slums, and immigration rates, the Progressive movement attempted to relieve these social ills by creating laws that would provide more power to the common people and slow the rise of capitalism Progressives differed in their perceptions of the nature of the nation's problems and how best to resolve them, but most shared the conviction that government at all levels must play an active role in reform. The man in document two believes that there were some sacrifices made for this era of progression which of course there was. When he states that we "have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature," maybe he is referring to the pollution from factories that are causing harm to our environment. While contemporary social activists sometimes perceived the judiciary as a barrier to change, the Supreme Court actually upheld most of the legislation passed during the Progressive Era, in particular supporting reformers' efforts to expand the federal government's power to regulate commerce and to curb the growth of monopolies. The Hepburn Act of 1906 broadened the scope and authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission giving it genuine power for the first time. The Court sustained the invigoration of the ICC, and affirmed the constitutionality of administrative regulation. Theodore Roosevelt also has the same views as the man in document two. He believes that with all this new advancements in technology and all these factories we are stripping the natural resources from our land and destroying the future for... future Americans. The church also had a lot to say. For one the church wanted equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life, abolition of child labor, regulation of the conditions of labor for women as shall safeguard the physical and moral health of the community, for a...