With America\'s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution.
Just three decades later, America was utterly tra.
Before the Progressive Era most Americans lived on farms, working from before sunRise to after sundown every day except Sunday with tools that had changed very little for centuries.
With America\'s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution