Washington gladden, a leader in the social gospel movement supported

A: increased government regulation of people's individual wealth.

B: decreased government regulation of big businesses.

C: a laissez-faire approach to businesses.

D: increased government regulation of big businesses.

Washington Gladden was a congregational pastor, an early leader of the Social Gospel movement, a prolific writer with a great amount of work counting poems, hymns, editorials and books. He supported the unionization of the workforce, opposed racial segregation and was a leading member of the Progressive Movement. A reform movement generally considered to be supportive of the middle class that grew popular during the 20th century, progressivism militated, among other things, for increased government regulation of the big business. It firmly opposed the oppression of competition through the development of monopolies.