Question

What was the long term impact of Progressivism on American life?
Name two ways Progressivism left a last legacy on America.

Answer 1

Part 1.
The Progressive Era was an age of reform. Its effects touched all Americans and changed the role of government in American society.
Part 2.

1. The roots of the liberalism with which we are familiar lie in the Progressive Era.

2. For the Progressives, freedom is redefined as the fulfillment of human capacities, which becomes the primary task of the state.

3. To some degree, modern conservatism owes its success to a recovery of and an effort to root itself in the Founders' constitutionalism.