The main goal was to strengthen the national government and make it more responsive to economic, social, and political demands, addressing issues that included wealth concentration and corporate power. The movement grew out of the Industrial Revolution and urbanization of the late 19th century. Progressives, very similar to Populists, believed that the citizen should be at the center of the conversation about how the country was governed.
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