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One example of progressive reform was the rise of the city manager system in which paid, professional engineers ran the day-to-day affairs of city governments under guidelines established by elected city councils. Many cities created municipal "reference bureaus" which did expert surveys of government departments looking for waste and inefficiency.
Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black progress. But King did something that eludes many of ...
In the East, every state had a progressive movement, but the conservative forces were usually more powerful. As an organized grassroots insurgency force the progressive movement was weak in New England. For example, "Massachusetts never caught the spirit of change which dominated the era, and consequently it appeared, at best, merely conservative."
Progressivism arose during the Age of Enlightenment out of the belief that civility in Europe was improving due to the application of new empirical knowledge. [2] In modern political discourse, progressivism is often associated with social liberalism, [3] [4] [5] a left-leaning type of liberalism, and social democracy.
Modern liberalism in the United States originates from the reforms advocated by the progressive movement of the early 20th century. [29] Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal in response to the Great Depression, and the New Deal programs defined social liberalism in the United States, establishing it as a major ideology.
Timelines of modern history (1500 CE – present) Timeline of early modern history (1500 CE – 1899) Timeline of the Salem witch trials (1688–1713) List of African-American firsts (1738–present) Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–1807) Timeline of modern American conservatism (1933 CE – present)
The modern Democratic Party emerged in the late 1820s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1793, and had largely collapsed by 1824. [1] It was built by Martin Van Buren who assembled many state organizations to form a new party as a vehicle to elect Andrew Jackson of Tennessee.
The following are timelines of modern history, from the end of the Middle Ages, c. 1400 – c. 1500, [1] to the present. General timelines. Early modern period For a ...