During the late 1800s and continuing through 1920, reform movements became an integral part of the United States socially, politically, and economically. These reform movements aimed to gradually change social issues surrounding the American economy and workforce. In the aftermath of the Civil War, there was great concern about the creation of a new America. Many of these concerns were related to the increasing industrialization and urbanization of the United States after the end of Reconstruction. Two of the biggest reform movements that helped make the United States the unipolar global force it is today revolved around populism and progressivism. This article will examine both the populist and progressive parties and how each group has attempted to shape the United States according to its own agenda, while highlighting the successes and failures that each party has had to endure. Although both parties made strong arguments during this period of history, one movement was more successful than the other in conveying its own political, social, and economic agendas. By the end of the Civil War, the South had seen its economy dramatically devastated. and industrial sectors. It was understood that the South must follow the example of the North by being able to diversify and develop its economy as well as its industrial and agricultural sectors. This, combined with the roots of the Granger movement, helped create a new political group aimed at fighting for the rights of farmers, wage workers, African Americans, and poor whites. This grassroots group known as the People's Party or Populist Party fought for greater government intervention in the United States economy. This movement was founded around the idea of ​​reforming the entire medium of paper. With the success they wanted to have, their fundamental ideas were eventually adopted into federal legislation and paved the way for workers, for women. , children and minority rights that we are exhibiting today. For the progressive movement, its ability to change the fiscal and social policies of the United States led to the success and expansion of this movement. The movement that began with opposition from big business for increased government intervention paved the way for many different fiscal policies that the United States still pursues today. Their political prowess in the fight for social rights led to the creation of the New Deal as well as the Fair Deal in the 1930s and 1940s. Being able to examine social and political reform movements is very important when considering how the United States moved through history to eventually become a global superpower..