In the period between 1870 and 1930, the populist movement concentrated on righting the wrongs of industry and economy, while the progressive movement strove for a fairer, more moral social aspect of America. Populists “regarded individuals’ selfish, private interests asâÂ?¦barriers to the attainment of public goodâÂ?¦” and stressed that farmers, and other collective workers in … Continue reading The Policies of the Populists and Progressives in Post-Civil War America