progressive movement
Advancing social change
A progressive movement is a reform effort aimed at social, political, or economic improvement.
The term often refers specifically to the early 20th-century American movement that fought political corruption, monopolies, and unsafe labor conditions.
More broadly, any organized push for liberal or left-leaning change qualifies: The progressive movement for universal healthcare gained momentum.
- suffragismAdvocacy for voting rights
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- direct actionConfrontational political tactics
- voter registrationSigning up for elections
- environmental justiceFair sharing of ecological burdens
anti-war protests · education equity · public education · income inequality · feminism · healthcare reform · LGBTQ rights · labor rights · living wage · child labor laws · social reform · muckraking · grassroots organizing · trust-busting · square deal · disability rights · social justice · fair housing
- social movementswomen's liberation, abolition, feminism, disability rights, LGBT rights
- populismpopulism, demagogue, demagoguery, anti-elitism, anti-establishment
- 2000s PoliticsTrump, Obama, Biden, Brexit, Putin
- American SocialismSocialist Party, democratic socialism, Bernie Sanders, Sanders, socialist
- settlement housessettlement houses, social workers, immigrant aid, immigrant services, night schools
progressive movementpaleoconservatism
Tradition-first, nation-focused conservatism
Tea Party movement · neoconservatism · religious right · alt-right · nationalist movement
progressive movementstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
conservatism · counterrevolution · revanchism · retrenchment · regression
progressive movementstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
establishmentarianism · counterrevolution · social conservatism · countermovement
progress, progressive, progressively, progressivism, progression, regress, regression, regressive, digress