The purity of food, milk and drinking water became a high priority in cities, while at the state and national levels, new food and drug laws strengthened urban efforts to guarantee food safety. Progressivism first affected urban communities, then spread to rural hinterlands, where Americans began to enjoy better roads, schools, advanced mechanization and communication. Numerous programs were aimed at rural youth, including 4-H clubs and the Boy and Girl scouts. County fairs not only gave prizes for the most productive agricultural practices but also demonstrated those practices to attentive rural audiences.
The political machine is very powerful in the city and because of how powerful it is that urban United States was able to develop so much and increase in power in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. A political machine is system of political organization based on patronage, the spoils system, and political ties. Sometimes political machines have a boss and sometimes they may not have a boss, and always have a corps of workers who depend on the patronage given by government contracts and jobs. Machine politics has existed in many United States cities for a long time now, but are still in effect in some areas.
In Chapter 2 of the text “Slavery, Emancipation, and Class formation in colonial and Early National New York” explores the centrality of slave labor and race to the development of class relations in colonial and early national New York City. In the 1600’s slave labor was noted as the central point to New York’s colonial economy and to the survival of European culture. The North colonial economy relied more heavily on slavery for free laborer than Manhattan. As a result of the slave era African American males and females became to central force and the foundation of New Yorkers ‘slave economy. Between 1600 and 1738 the slave population
Sue Monk Kidd’s style and her use of figurative language clearly depicts T-Ray of a type of belligerent and animalistic human.
They referred to these changes as "man-made plagues" (Stock, 52) Stock believes that this was not so much a political movement as it was a fight for equality between the rural and urban way of living. Farmers were weary of the negative effects that the whims of city-folk had made upon them. They implemented this voluntary association. Community charity events based on volunteers would bring people together out of common, personal goals, instead of motivated by monetary gain. The group, The Patrons of Husbandry, or, the Grange, was a result of this
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the United States experienced a large increase in political, economic, and social reforms. During this time, there had been an increase in urbanization, and industrial factories within the larger cities throughout the United States, particularly in the northeastern cities. With the addition of the industries and factories too populated also came a growing number of immigrants, and seekers of wealth and employment. As a result, the population increase would result in major issues which would overshadow the economic gains that came from industrialization. In addition, the rise of industrialization also brought about major issues within the populations of the city. After seeing
Chicago in the 1920s was a turning point for the development of ethnic neighborhoods. After the opening of the first rail connection from New York to Chicago in the 1840s, immigration sky rocketed from that point on. Majority of the immigrants to Chicago were Europeans. The Irish, Italians, eastern European Jews, Germans, and Mexicans were among the most common ethnicities to reside in Chicago. These groups made up the greater part of Chicago. The sudden increase in immigration to Chicago in the 1920s soon led to an even further distinguished separation of ethnicities in neighborhoods. The overall development of these neighborhoods deeply impacted how Chicago is sectioned off nowadays. Without these ethnicities immigrating to Chicago
This led to disease from contaminated drinking water. Crime and corruption ran rampant in these urban areas, whether it was political machines influencing elections or the absence of a police presence because of how large the population was. Pollution from the factories made the air smog ridden and generally unhealthy. Now with all these negatives it was clear some reform needed to be made, there already was a widening gap between rural and urban society. Urban society was beginning to be more progressive and ok with change, they were more secular and multicultural and had a more modern view on the role of women, more of whom worked in cities than in the country. While these progressive views would soon begin to spread rural society at this time was still very traditional with fundamentalist views on religion, combined with growing sentiments of nativism due to the feeling immigrants were stealing their jobs. Movements began in cities to get churches more involved in social issues some churches struggled to adapt and refrained from reforming. Liberal protestants wanted moral reforms and a less literal interpretation of the
The progressive era was a time period in America after reconstruction that took place from 1900 to 1920. The progressive era focused mainly on social and political reform, trying to fix America's economy by working towards equal conditions for individuals, stopping political corruption and increasing government intervention on social and economic issues. Progressivists were social activists and political reformers working to improve conditions and the treatment of the American people. The progressive era was successful in the fight to reform the United States by improving industrialization, urbanization cities, and reforming America's social and gender classes.
In the early 1900’s, much was being done to better the country and improve the lives of Americans from the east coast to the west coast. The administration of food was monitored to ensure that each individual was being
Recent events that have highlighted racial tension in the United States have had even a larger number of opinions that vary regarding why the nation continues to struggle with such a challenging issue. In our text Chapter 6 titled “The City/Suburban Divide” (Judd & Swanstrom, 2015, p. 136) identifies a subject that very well may contribute to the tension. A reference to the “urban crisis” describes a landscape that is littered with “high levels of segregation, inequality and poverty, along with racial and ethnic tensions.” (Judd, et al., p. 165) Many scholars argue that the crisis was a result of the demographic changes the nation experienced following World War II as advancements in technology and infrastructure aided White Mobility. The term “White Flight” has been used to describe a massive relocation early in the twentieth century when the White Middle-Class population left the cities for suburban areas following the great migration.
Jacob Price Informative Speech Outline Topic: Overweight and Obesity in the United States Opening with Impact: “ I want everybody to put up ten fingers. This represents the United States population ages twenty and up. Now everybody put down 3 fingers. That leaves you with seven fingers.
Between the periods of the Civil War and the Great War, economy and culture development led to the urbanization and industrialization in America. The most remarkable development of American history was the immigration of foreigners from outside countries to the United States, causing quick growth in urban populations and a transformation of American union. In the early 19th century, thirteen million immigrants came from the United States, most from Italy and Russia, and the Progressive Era immigration forming the process of migration set by the expansion and the industrial revolution. Immigrants coming to the United States came for the American dream of freedom, and the desire to escape poverty and seek for jobs. The urbanization and growth
Progressivism improved the health and sanitation of cities greatly. The first sight of this was the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. This was a system of government inspection for meat products. Inspectors graded the meat by its quality. The government did this because there were hazards surround the meat such as cancers in the meat, not monitoring it and keeping it warm. The meat was kept on the floor for rats and was spit on, walked all over, not kept refrigerated and that lead to many illnesses and even death(The progressive Era). Another way it helped the sanitation of cities was to clean the cities streets by sweeping, creating sewer systems and not dumping poop into the streets(ARHS). The progressives had to do this because if they did not disease would continue to spread rapidly. Diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera,and yellow fever would spread throughout the cities. The final biggest way progressives helped Sanitation and health is that they stopped and helped the immigrants who were living in crowded, filthy, crime infested neighborhoods. They improved this by giving people more opportunities, making scripture laws and more surveillance around the neighborhood. This was necessary because the crime rate was drastically increasing in the neighborhoods, resulting in death. They had
In this article, Michael Pollan expresses his views on what the Western diet is and how Americans need to escape from it. To the author, a type of American diet consists of an excessive amount of fast food and how it can lead to obesity and illnesses. Pollan expresses how he disagrees with the diet and states that both food and health industries are partially to blame for this. Pollan gives his opinion on the food industry, medical community and his own ideas on how to escape this diet.
From 1890 to 1920, cities in the United States experienced a rapid growth that was unprecedented in years previous. This growth was caused by a number of factors and resulted in both positive and negative consequences. Such factors included, industrialization, technological advances, migration and immigration. Although American cities greatly improved by the expeditious urbanization, these factors also developed numerous challenges including pollution, sanitation problems, a need for environmental reform, political corruption, overcrowding, high crime rates and segregation.