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Although the Progressive movement is usually seen as a great achievement in the history of American development, some feel that the Progressives failed to comply with the standards of equality and justice they had set out to create. The Progressive movement was instigated as a reaction to the political and corporate abuses created by the Industrial Revolution,. Religious groups, members of the press, and radical political groups had all been hungering for reform, with solutions …

…blacks and their position in Progressivism. Catholic groups would advocate Progressivism in black neighborhoods, however the Protestants would not work with the "inferior, ungodly race." The Progressives often had their goals in two different areas: bureaucracy and democracy. The ideal end of Progressive democracy was justice, socially. The minimal end of Progressive bureaucracy was social power and control. Most critics feel that the two political entities were too uncompatible to ever succeed in the end.