So Will, what even is the Progressive era?
What? What do you mean? What kind of APUSH student even are you?
I said a big bust. Here comes Sherman Anti Trust
Sherman and us, we 'bout to bust that trust
Down with the huge monopolies
Progressives, Protect the people please
The unions made a pact. They gon' gain some power
Got machines to make flour, getting paid more by the hour
Down with Carnegie, John D. And Vanderbilt
Big Business's power will start to tilt
It's the progressive movement, and we're gonna do this
Reform living conditions for the new immigrants
We will pass prohibition. It's our god-given mission
You ain't gonna stop us
All aboard the Progressive bus
The progressive era was a time of evolution
Of social justice and industrial revolution
A fight back against the big corporation
That was going to corrupt our freedom and nation
Getting more say with the FDA
No more rats in my food, ok?
This ain't no jungle. Don't make a fumble
We just want hot dogs, and from real deal hogs
Something that won't make our stomachs grumble
Yo this is Big Bill Taft. You thought I left but now I'm back
No longer the Sec(retary) of War
I'm gonna help support the poor
And yes I take the middle stance
It's 1909. I got the presidential pants
And I weigh in at over 300
Into the White House I thundered
But Teddy Roosevelt was irate, and with that he sealed our fates
(Next) Wilson became the head of our 50 states
He saw us through the First World War
He got the League of Nations on the senate floor
But he refused to compromise, and his stubbornness was its demise
The true trust buster of us three, it was he who broke monopolies
The progressive era was a time of evolution of social justice and industrial revolution
A fight back against the big corporation that was going to corrupt our freedom and nation
There was Huey Long, a Democrat
He wanted to share the wealth with an income tax
Cuz he thought the New Deal didn't go far enough, He broke off and did his own darn stuff
His radical stance and his far left views led to his assassination in Baton Rouge
Robert LaFollette, a senator from Wisconsin
Was disappointed by the government's growing corruption
He fought for a higher minimum wage
It rattled the GOP's cage on the national stage
To support the workers, he wanted compensation
To set an example for employers of the nation
The progressive era was a time of evolution
Of social justice and industrial revolution
A fight back against the big corporation
That was going to corrupt our freedom and nation
Progressives wanted women to vote
With this new found freedom towards the top women float
The nineteenth amendment gave them that right, but it didn't come without a big fight
Congress passed the sixteenth amendment
Conservatives proposed and liberals defended it
The seventeenth brought direct election
So our voice was heard in each congressional session
The progressive era was a time of evolution of social justice and industrial revolution
A fight back against the big corporation that was gonna corrupt our freedom and nation
Yo yo yo that's the progressive movement
To do the reform that the Gilded age wouldn't
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