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Enter the Progressives!
John Dewey and Lester Ward placed universal, compulsory, public education at the top of the top of the Progressive agenda. Even against the will of the parents, the child must attend school.
Samuel Gompers said monopolies supressed the competition needed for progress and that the federal government should break them up into smaller companies. [...]

When Progressivism began, the Civil War had only been over for twenty years of less. Immigrants had come to America in droves to find streets paved with gold, only to end up in slums. Former black slaves from the South came to northern cities hoping to find prosperity and a cordial welcome from those who [...]

A second Progressive movement came in 1924 when Senator Robert La Follette ran for president, crusading against oligarchy (government by a small elite) and plutarchy (government by and for the wealthy). He lost in this period of the “roaring twenties” when business was booming and we were dancing the Charleston and the the country was still tying [...]