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Myth20c – Ep86 – The Progressive Era – Roots of American Bureaucracy

September 8, 2018 by Myth Century

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Myth20c - Ep86 - The Progressive Era - Roots of American Bureaucracy

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Following the Civil War, the notion of unity in the United States was more than just wishful thinking. As Reconstruction came to an informal close in the 1870s, the excesses of the Gilded Age with the increasing power of the banking and industrial classes created the political climate for the Progressive Era in the 1890s.