Question

A major goal of the Progressive movement was to A) establish a flat rate income tax. B) increase democracy in US government. C) create a national bank for the United States. D) encourage ties between government and busine

Answer 1

B) Increase democracy in the US government.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is B. A major goal of the Progressive movement was to increase democracy in US government.

Explanation:

The Progressive Era is the name given to a period in US history from the 1890s to the 1920s, although it is sometimes more restrictively associated with Theodore Roosevelt's presidency years. (1901-1909).

It was an era of partial rupture with the laissez-faire and individualism of the previous years, marked by economic, political, social and moral reforms in response to the changes and problems brought by the industrial revolution. The Supreme Court, however, consistently opposed any regulation of the economy or the labor market, declaring laws restricting child labor or introducing minimum wages as anti-constitutional: the so-called Lochner era of the Supreme Court, which lasted until the late 1930s.

Some key reforms, such as women's voting rights, date back to that time, but the Progressive era did not benefit all US citizens.