https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9 Made with charisma en-us 2021-03-03 17:16:14 UTC 2021-03-04 23:19:46 UTC hello@padlet.com marleygalexander https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9/wish/1264943424 - (almost finished part 3 of the book so this is what i have gotten so far)
- Backlash against progressivism
- many Americans were urked by the reform that progressives where implementing 
- Sherwood Anderson: writer who felt restrained by the progressives 
- McGerr the goes on to the decline of the progressivism movement
- Wilson was elected, and the administration needed support by the people specifically the progressive reformers. 
- Part 3 in all discussed the end or the decline of the progressivism movement starting with the election of Woodrow Wilson, and how his administration benefitted the US.



]]> 2021-03-03 17:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9/wish/1264943424 marleygalexander https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9/wish/1264944412 -McGerr discusses the battles and social reforms during the progressive era- on their agenda required "an impressive host of reforms." 
-Just as the middle class was remade, I think it is important to note that this marked the beginning of other classes being remade. 
"Progressives seldom suggested that middle class was the issue, instead, the problem belonged to other classes-wealthy, workers, or farmers."
-problems in the progressives way: environment, segregation, money
to change: 1) Used public policy to shame the rich. Taxing and condemning them was key in taking their wealth away. 2)to reform: created settlement homes and had more church programs, city missions to appeal urban poor. ]]> 2021-03-03 17:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9/wish/1264944412 marleygalexander https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9/wish/1264945976 - Election of 1896 between McKinley and Bryan was representative of the struggles between the working-class and the "Upper-Ten"

- "What would become the Progressive Era - an extraordinary explosion of middle-class activism - began as an unprecedented crisis of alienation amid the extremes of wealth and poverty in America"

-The wealthy's belief in necessity of individual freedom vs. the sacrifice of individualism among wage workers
--> I think this was a major point of Part 1 and it speaks a lot more to the inequalities between the two classes than just a difference in money

- "One of the obstacles to political action and unionization was the striking diversity of American wage earners" Induced more conflict within the class

-Assassination of McKinley in 1901: "The party was over"

- Victorianism led to progressivism which healed some of the friction between class, with the middle-class acting as the "radical center"
Led to more social unity for workers, didn't completely erase conflict]]> 2021-03-03 17:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9/wish/1264945976 marleygalexander https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9/wish/1264946992 - McGerr argues that “progressivism created much of our contemporary political predicament” (19)
- I think that this argument is important in understanding McGerr's definition of what Progressivism is and his opinions are set up during the first 3 pages of the book.  ]]> 2021-03-03 17:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9/wish/1264946992 marleygalexander https://padlet.com/marleygalexander/pstyau90clsy2xz9/wish/1264951810 - McGerr emphasizes class
- class becomes something that influences others the most
- Focuses on the four main progressive battles
- an analysis of the social and cultural changes in America
- the book also contains biographies
- In my opinion a primary theme was individualism because the progressives saw individualism as an element that was essential for the sake of the US to be effective during the progressive era.
 


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