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Chapter 29 APUSH Notes 2/26/13 10:45 PM Progressivism At the beginning of the 20th Century, the ethnically and racially mixed American people were convulsed by a reform movement.? The new crusaders, who called themselves "progressives," waged war on many evils including monopolies, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice. Problems of the Urban Poor Lived in areas that are filled with dirt, disease, vice, and misery of the rat-gnawed human rookeries known as New York slums. They used religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor. Political Progressivism Progressive reformers were mainly middle-class men and women.
