The person least likely to be considered a progressive in the early 20th century was A) farmer. The progressive idea was aligned with the disbelief in industrialization and urbanization. Progressivism was largely a middle-class movement, strongly based in the urban areas, in which the destitute poor and unorganized had little influence. They called for laws improving the workplace, end to child labor, women's suffrage. The radical wing of the Progressive movement was led by socialist doctrines. In this scenario, all the other options were well represented in the movement, leaving only the farmers category out of this new way of solving social, economical and political problems.
Answer: A
Explanation: a farmer would not be considered a progressive because they were not very industrialized and urban
