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The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to 1920s. The main objective of the Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government. The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses.By taking down these corrupt representatives in office a further means of direct democracy would be established.s part of this tradition of maternal activism, the Progressive-era General Federation supported a range of causes from the pure food and drug administration to public health care for mothers and children to a ban on child labor, each of which looked to the state to help implement their vision of social justice.
progressive education. movement in American education. Confined to a period between the late 19th and mid-20th cent., the term progressive education is generally used to refer only to those educational programs that grew out of the American reform effort known as the progressive movement.