Question

Identify 3 leaders of reform movements during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and briefly explain their goals.

Answer 1

This is a bit from a website i found.....(I didnt realy know the answer)

Progressivism was the reform movement that ran from the late 19th century through the first decades of the 20th century,(Which is what your looking for) 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. The Progressives believed that these changes marked the end of the old order and required the creation of a new order appropriate for the new industrial age.

In politics and political thought, the movement is associated with political leaders such as Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt and thinkers such as Herbert Croly and Charles Merriam.

While the Progressives differed in their assessment of the problems and how to resolve them, they generally shared in common the view that government at every level must be actively involved in these reforms. The existing constitutional system was outdated and must be made into a dynamic, evolving instrument of social change, aided by scientific knowledge and the development of administrative bureaucracy.

Presidential leadership would provide the unity of direction -- the vision -- needed for true progressive government. "All that progressives ask or desire," wrote Woodrow Wilson, "is permission -- in an era when development, evolution, is a scientific word -- to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine."

Answer 2

The "leaders" would in this case be Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Croly, and Charles Merriam.

Answer 3

That help?

Answer 4

A reform movement is a kind of a social movement, what kind of movement are you referring to?
for example, there's a women suffrage movement.

Answer 5

I believe its just any reform movement as long as it occured in the 19th and early 20th century.

Answer 6

It was for u.s history so it should've happened in the u.s :)

Answer 7

So then my answer was correct?

Answer 8

Leaders of reform movements:
o Theodore Roosevelt - recognized that the natural resources in the United States were limited. If efforts were not made to protect those resources, Roosevelt believed that they would eventually be used up.
o Gifford Pinchot – coined the word conservation to mean the need to protect the country's national environment. Pinchot was appointed head of the National Forest Service, an organization in charge of protecting millions of acres of public forests.
o William Howard Taft
o Woodrow Wilson