FACT: If not for a pardon from President Richard Nixon, John McCain would have been court-martialed for treason.#CNNTownHall pic.twitter.com/ncXjQWRvmW. â America First! (@America_1st_) March 2, 2017. However, the rumors failed to cite a single piece of evidence documenting that such a pardon was extended to McCain.
Progressivism was the reform movement that ran from the late 19th century through the first decades of the 20th century, during which leading intellectuals and social reformers in the United States sought to address the economic, political, and cultural questions that had arisen in the context of the rapid changes brought with the Industrial Revolution and the growth of modern capitalism in America.
Confidence votes 658. The Progressive Era is a widely recognized period in American history which is generally considered to have begun around 1900 and to have ended with America's entry into the First World War in 1917. Since the intensity of progressive reform peaked during that time, the designation is appropriate.hus the roots of American Progressivism are deep and wide, but the last decades of the 19th century created conditions that cried out for reform.