Populism And Progressivism
Troubled by corruption, social injustices, stubbornness, waste and inefficiency during the Gilded Age, progressives were dedicated to change and reform all the aspects of the society, state and economy of the United States of America. Several changes were ratified by the national government, including income tax imposition that followed the sixteenth constitution amendment, election of senators following the seventeenth constitution amendment, prohibition mandated by the eighteenth amendment of the constitution,

