In his book "Search for Order," historian Robert H. Weibe discussed the extent of the Progressivist movement and its key reformers. He asserted that the middle class's aspiration to achieve its objectives was at the core of the progressivist movement.
The United States was a country of remote island villages in the 1870s and 1880s. People viewed the world through the prism of close friendships and small-town Protestant work ethic and thriftiness. Society grew "distended" in the 1880s and early 1890s as more powerful forces started to intrude on people's lives. These included monopolies, corporate finance, industrialisation, immigration, and urbanisation.
While Sklar highlights the value of a moral vision and the interplay of gender, class, and grassroots movements to create more economic equality, Wiebe adds that Progressives sought solutions that recognised the foundations of contemporary society and were bureaucratic in character.
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