Monopolies Of The Progressive Era

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The Progressive Era was significant because it’s the first sign of modern society. It was the first sign of modern society because other races and genders than white males were citizens. Another thing close to society is it had a significant amount of poverty afterwards and that time period was called the Great Depression. The reason the Progressive Era was different from the Industrial Era is it tried to fix some issues from the Industrial Era. One of those issues is quality control for food; they could market anything and there were no safety standards like the FDA puts in today. There were also a lot of monopolies which allowed a few companies to control a huge amount of the market. There’s also a bit of that still left today, which we need