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AP U.S. Government 3.3 Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Mass Media. During the turn of the 20th century, Progressives what?

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Yeah All right Well during the turn of the twentieth

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century progressives ah what and hear the pencil answers are

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democrat republican Both parties oppose all right That's the stuff

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At the turn of the twentieth century corporations found themselves

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in huge positions of power while workers were dealing with

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long hours low salaries poor working conditions and we're pining

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for any possible peace progress in the early nineteen hundreds

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were progressives a mostly found in a democratic party Well

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president woodrow wilson a democrat in office from nineteen thirteen

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to nineteen twenty one was a big advocate for antitrust

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legislation and improving labor conditions for workers But so is

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president theodore roosevelt a republican in office from ninety No

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one threw nineteen o nine He made it his business

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to break up the big businesses dominating turn of the

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century america so we can go ahead and legislate against

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options A b and e in the early twentieth century

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were progressives d mostly members of their own parties Well

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in fact there was briefly a progressive party led by

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our man teddy roosevelt after losing out to tap for

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the republican nomination in nineteen twelve But it didn't last

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for long so we can dissolve our support for dia's

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Well which means that during the turn of the twentieth

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century progresses were see members of both parties The plight

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of the worker became a unifying call for both democrats

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and republicans So progressives were able to make progress on

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both sides of the aisle That makes see the correct

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answer We were recently invited to a regressive party but 00:01:39.329 --> [endTime] we're trying not to fall back into old habits

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