They mostly focused on political problems
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Rauschenbusch believed that evil in the world was a result of big bodies like political institutions and that evil in individuals came about as a result of this. He believed that a way to combat this was to destroy political corruption which was a major focus of the Progressive movement.
One of the contradictions of the progressive movement involved race. Black suffrage was a major a problem and was not covered enough in the movement.
A statement that declares the ideology of the progressive movement can be very simple. The progressive movement is people who believe in change, reform, and progress in regards to who has control over the government.
The progressive movement was an attempt at political reform. Reformers of this movement included Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft.
The Progressive Era was a period of political reform and social activism. Prohibition "rode the coattails of the Progressive Movement" refers to the idea that prohibition was allowed because of the rise of progressive thinking.