01.41.17 Which statement best sums up the meaning of this
passage?

Read the passage from Charles Dickens's Hard Times.
It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of
which interminable (unending) serpents of smoke
trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got
uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran
purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building
full of windows where there was a rattling and a
trembling all day long, and where the piston of the
steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like
the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy
madness.
O The Industrial Age brought wealth to more people
than at any other time in history.
O More people were able to enjoy leisure time, thanks
to the advances of the Industrial Age.
O The Industrial Age brought with it problems such as
pollution and monotonous labor.
More people were able to find rewarding work,
thanks to the growth of industry.
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the progressive era is a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the united states that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s.[1] the main objectives of the progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.

the movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses. by taking down these corrupt representatives in office, a further means of direct democracy would be established. they also sought regulation of monopolies (trust busting) and corporations through antitrust laws, which were seen as a way to promote equal competition for the advantage of legitimate competitors.

many progressives supported prohibition of alcoholic beverages, ostensibly to destroy the political power of local bosses based in saloons, but others out of a religious motivation. at the same time, women's suffrage was promoted to bring a "purer" female vote into the arena.a third theme was building an efficiency movement in every sector that could identify old ways that needed modernizing, and bring to bear scientific, medical and engineering solutions; a key part of the efficiency movement was scientific management, or "taylorism".

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