Progressive Era

1. Progress making improvements to achieve a goal.

2. The progressive era was 1890-1920 this time is associated with urbanization and business expansion

3. Progressive reforms often have to do with restoring democracy

4. An essential goal of the progressive era was improving quality of life by reducing the harsh conditions caused by industrialization.  A good but not completely necessary goal was making work more efficient and reducing work hours.  A strange goal was fixing the uneven distribution of wealth between big businesses.  A goal that was not a good idea was improving the life style of the poor by changing their life style in ways like banning alcohol.