New Deal vs The Progressive Era
The accomplishments taken place upon the onset of the many New Deal legislations owe much to the seeds implanted and unknowingly disseminated by the pre-WWI Progressive movement. ... With the new found image of the nation and world as a whole, the reforms advanced the position of the previously ignored people of the nation, as did its reincarnation and rebirth apparent in the New Deal. Although the first signs of this pristine Progressive movement shone since the mid-1800s, no one had cleared the way for its momentous effect upon the nation in the same degree as Theodore Roosevelt. Although at times hot-tempered and brash, his charismatic attitude pushed forward many of the original progressive legislations. ... The actions taken by Theodore Roosevelt proved to throw the Progressive movement into the mainstream of the nation, showing its true, ingenuous face. ... He gave the surging mainstream progressive movement an innocent morality he naturally possessed. While many of the Progressive accomplishments are attributed to these two leaders of the movement, many major events stand alone as Progressive milestones. ... Because environment maintained a status of second important and the primary to create new jobs for the unemployed, the New Deal passed the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Acts, which conserved the land as well as created some new jobs. ... The New Deal established worked to alleviate the unemployment epidemic during the Great Depression. ... Crusading against the corruption brooding underneath the relaxed watch of the laissez-faire government and ruthless corporations, our nation pushed for progress during this Progressive era. The immoral graft, trusts, and unfair civil welfare practices were targeted and systematically eliminated, and this spirit of reform was reincarnated during the New Deal.