What factors constrained the Progressive agenda?
A) Striking workers discouraged Progressive Era presidents from advocating on their behalf, and they chose to focus on breaking up trusts rather than improving labor conditions for American workers.
B) Progressives could not agree whether it would be best to fight at the federal level for governmental protections or to work to improve conditions at the local level, such as through improvements in housing and sanitation.
C) The Supreme Court limited or struck down many protections for workers won by Progressives, and many workers themselves believed that unions and strikes were better means to improving their situation.
D) Industrialists were engaged in applying the findings of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the workplace, and the increases in production and efficiency captivated the interest of scientifically-inclined Progressives.
E) The meager benefits of welfare capitalism turned out to be sufficient so that workers and Progressives alike gave up pushing for greater gains.
C
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What will be an ideal response?
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