What were the typical methods of progressive reformers? (US history: era of progressive reform 1890-1920.)

The
progressive movement was born out of the emerging middle class in America. Reform by definition
is to make something better. In this case rais the quality of life for many Americans. The
industrial Revolution in America was met face to face with a seemingly endless suply of
unskilled laborers in the form of immigrants. Essentially those who were lowest on the economic
scale were pushed upward because of the influx of immigrants. The new middle class people who
didn't have to work seven days a...