progressive movement dbq
“The Progressive movement of 1900 to 1917 was a triumph of conservatism rather than a victory of liberalism. ... The Progressive Party as well as the progressives were pro-liberalism who sought to achieve social and economic reforms. The progressive movements and their leaders raised various issues which were brought to the national level through Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson between the years of 1900-1917. Although the progressives strived for social justice and achieving those goals through the government, the results were somewhat of a paradox, where the conservatives rose to power because of the fractionalization of the progressive movement constituencies. Three main conservatives who used the progressive defects to their advantages were J. ... Opposition in progressive movements such as the Hetch-Hetchy case arguing conservation versus preservation allowed people like J. ... Congress was overwhelmed with all the smaller progressive movements that people like John D. ... Once again having all these different social justice goals made it difficult for any one movement to pass legislation and get the rights granted to them.