Peace, temperance, anti-slavery, and women’s rights.
<span>The Progressives believed then as they do today, that this rapidly changing society required the establishment of a “new order”. Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, John Dewey and Charles Merriam were early political leaders of the movement.
Below are </span><span>convictions did progressive reformers share
</span><span>1)believed that industrialization and urbanization had produced serious social disorders, from city slums to corporate abuses, 2)they believed that new ideas and methods were required to correct these problems, 3)they rejected the ideology of individualism in favor of broader concepts of social responsibility, and sought to achieve social order through organization and efficiency, and 4)they believed that government itself, as the organized agent of public responsibility, should address social and economic problems</span>
<u><em>The fur trade industry was the colony’s economic salvation</em></u>. For the first few years that the colony existed, the colonists struggled to make enough money to pay the investors back. In fact, they had to ask for more money just to keep the colony running and by the mid to late 1620s, they were deeply in debt to the investors.
<u>To help pay down the debt they still owed</u>, the colonists established a beaver fur trading base in Kennebec, Maine by 1625.
<u>This fur trading business was very successful for the colonists and quickly became an essential part of their economy</u>. Their success in this trade continued well into the 1630s and 1640s..
