The Progressive Movement

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The Progressive Movement
Bringing Reconstruction to the broken economic structures in the United States has arguably been one of the most enduring and significant issues that the country had faced in its time. As Richard Hofstadter, explain that the progressive movement presented in his essay, “The Status Revolution and Progressive Leaders” by analyzing the common beliefs of the reform groups in the modern perspective. By doing this, it will then to elucidate historical distortions, most notably between the New Deal and Progressivism. The progressive movement brought to the place of entirely during the moment of sustained and prosperity. The reading brought views and thoughts of why did the concerns of the leaders for progression. The leaders contributed the movements for a political and intellectual stand for finance to formulate ideas. I agree with Richard Hofstadter that with a nation for a rather broad diffusion on money, status, and power for an average man in the 1870s can be influence with the absence of many nationwide sources of the powerful and prestige. Also in Hofstadter’s essay, he explained his thought that mugwunps, were Republican political activists who is against the Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate and also a name given to the unwanted and used up, were Progressives that are victims in the disturbance status. It also presented that the United States was a land that gave people opportunity and place money; however, the civil war increased more. The Mugwump were usually Republican, that were succeeded and thrived; however, people of new wealth in the turn of the century had uncontrollable power unlike the men had seen before. They basically opposed the large attention of wealth and influence th...

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...umps were republicans who “expressed their distaste for machine politics, corruption, and the cruder forms of business intervention in political affairs.” They anchored to other parties when they thought their principles were being violated. An example of this can be seen in the election of 1884, which is believed to have won Cleveland’s presidency. It was because of this would lead more abundance of corruption and fraud which the old wealth resent the new wealth. Mugwumps had their economic views adjusted and revived enthusiasm for popular government, this then became one of the leading forces for progressivism in a political aspect. I agree is Hofstadter that he defines mugwumps closely to progressive leaders who help contributed to the movement for politics and intellect. Progressivism in essence was the shifts and changes of authority and status during this era.

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