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The Melting Pot of Politics, The Progressive Era
The Progressive Movement during the late 1890’s was one of America’s most influential time periods. It was not one group of people fighting for one thing; it was a plethora of people that had different ideas of how they saw society changing and how to improve it. Everyone was very different as far as parties went and had their own views. There were a few main parties that formed during this time period. There were the Democrats that had William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson, there were the Republicans that had William Taft, there were the Progressives that had Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Lafollette and there were the socialist party that had Eugene Debs. This melting pot of influences had tremendous social, economic, and political change.

Among the two candidates that had the most influence on the American people was the Progressive candidate, Theodore Roosevelt and the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson. These two......

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