What did progressives hope to achieve with political reforms?

The Progressive Party hoped to accomplish several different reforms including:

1) Expansion of democratic rights- This means that the Progressives wanted to help women gain the right to vote in local, state, and national elections.

2) An efficient and well funded government- The Progressive Party heavily influenced the passage of the 16th amendment. This amendment calls for a federal income tax, allowing additional funds for the government to use for essential services.

3) Regulation of businesses- The Progressive party focused on breaking up trusts and monopolies in order to encourage competition in the market place.

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the pogroms became known as kristallnacht, the "night of shattered glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. the morning after the pogroms 30,000 german jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished.