How Progressive was the 'Progressive era'?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

They banned liquor, sterilized minorities, imprisoned thousands of political prisoners, and re-segregated the federal government. How progressive.

and created an American Empire

Please, please, please use something resembling anything close to proper punctuation. And how do you lack the wherewithal to realize that the audience you're speaking to has negligible emotional attachment--if not outright antipathy--towards any empire?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Gilded Age was 1865/1877 to 1896; Progressive Era was 1896-1933; the New Deal Era was 1933 to 1968.