what important reforms were brought about by the progressive era?
Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-1132. Women in the Progressive Era achieved many important reforms. Perhaps their most concrete victory was the passage of the 19th Amendment, enfranchising women. Yet, reform women also began to redefine the role of the federal government in American society.
Full Text. 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.
Some reform women from the Progressive Era were already in the government, in the Childrenâs Bureau and the Womenâs Bureau in the Department of Labor. Other women who had grown up in the womenâs reform movement were brought into the federal government for the first time by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Women became the driving force of the reform/progressive era, some say due to their maternal role in society, but nevertheless they help orchestrated the movement that transformed the character of society and the nature of American politics.