Most progressive agreed that the government should protect workers and help the poor. Progressivism focuses on the use of advancements in social organization and technology to improve quality of life.
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1. People are free to make their own government. 2. No one should be able to ignore the law. 3. The government has limits.
socioeconomic issues
The issue that wouldn't concern most progressives would be racial segregation in the South.
Not true. Recall that the Sherman Anti Trust act restricted big businesses from forming monopolies. Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were perhaps some of the most important figures of the Progressive movement, and they both were in favor of government regulation of big business precisely because they were progressives. Furthermore, legislation was being passed that required standards in proper handling of food. In doing so, the government was telling businesses that their products must be made under proper conditions or they will be shut down.
Political and economic reforms. :]