The Progressive Era was primarily concerned with making government responsible for the needs of the people.
A result of the Gibbo V. Ogden (1824) decision was that state could regulate commerce only within their borders. This was a landmark decision in which united state supreme that held the power to regulate interstate commerce. The landmark was considered decision with ripple effect that lasted for 1000 years.
The company towns reinforced it by having special wages for people of different ethnicity or by racially profiling and segregating those that they didn't want to be equal with Caucasian workers. This caused an even bigger drift between people and distrust to arise.
Popol Vuh is also celebrated as one of the most important pieces of Mesoamerican literature, with poetic verses that rival the Odyssey of Greece and the Ramayana of India.
They were desperate for stability and Hitler provided them with that.
