During the Gilded Age, the time after the Civil War, large corporations and trusts controlled much of the economy and most of the government. Monopolies sprouted from every corner of the U.S. economy including the Vanderbilts, Rockafellers, Carnagies, and etc. The Progressive Era, the response to the Gilded Age and its exploitation, was a widespread reform of economics and social and political aspects of America. The movements during the Progressive Era succeeded tremendously, in …showed first 75 words of 878 total…

…showed last 75 words of 878 total…were people just enjoying nature and wanting to preserve the land that they enjoy. But every one of the Progressive movements did not just stop with the Progressive Era, but for years to come, Presidents would use Theodore Roosevelt's bully pulpit, and people would march in the streets to be united and not segregated, and people would go so far as to handcuff themselves together in order to protect a certain place of wondrous beauty.