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    As the American Empire expanded and the powerful nation forced social and political unrest across the world, a new era of progressivism irrupted within the country’s homeland and evolved to include political and social aspects. This largely social revolution, which outcasted earlier beliefs of social Darwinism, emerged as an effort to change political agenda and adapt social norms to provide equality for all Americans. With the expanding movement, specific groups and organizations collaborated to

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    Everything you think you know is wrong. That is the statement the was inferred to the people living in the early 1900’s. This was a brutal time of transition for America and the world that would come to be called the Progressive Era. The country was making leaps and bound in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering. Politics and policies were being revisited for change. Education and literacy were becoming more mainstream. Basically everything that people had known was being challenged

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    Even though the optimal American Dream doesn’t promise that all citizens will achieve personal success, it offers equality and fortunes for them to pursue dreams through hard work. However, during the Industrial Age, the American Dream didn’t apply to the lower class. Most immigrants from southern and eastern Europe arrived in the United States to escape religious persecution and poverty in their home countries and also seek new opportunities. But, they realized the brutal reality after their arrival

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    Chapter 16 1.) All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT: Question options: | a) | availability of capital for investment. | | b) | a growing supply of labor. | | c) | abundant natural resources. | | d) | low tariffs. | | e) | federal land grants to railroads. | | | 1 / 1 point | 2.) By 1890, the majority of Americans: Question options: | a) | worked as farmers. | | b) | worked as independent craftsmen

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    “technology” of public action over the last fifty years, both in the United States, and other parts of the world (Salmon, p. 1). Robertson analyzes in detail periods of durable reforms— the progressive Era (from 1890s through the 1910s), the New Deal (1930s), the Great Society (1960s), and the conservative era beginning in the 1980s—changed American federalism

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    Progressive Reforms in chapter 16 - by Breanna Hubbard Reforms definitely helped shape the way we live today. Reforms have been a vital part in shaping our country; we owe many reforms a thank you. The way live today would not be nearly as peaceful without reforms and the people who created them. There are many different types of reforms and each of them has purpose. The people who created these reforms wanted to see a change in the way that Americans and people around the world were living, reforms

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    From the late 1800’s to the early 1900s there was a large scale movement in the US known as the progressive era. This movement was focused on how many americans were concerned about their working environments and how corporations would treat them. This era is considered to most to end around the time the US gets involved in WWI since it was able to bring together the corporation and the public to work towards the common goal of the war. However before this Corporation were only focused on making

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    During the progressive era in the late 19th century, many changes were made that have impacted humans’ still today. Such as new reforms that helped and improved the country’s health, safety, and happiness. Not only did the changes help society, it advanced the country to become well developed, strong, and indpendent. Because of Teddy Roosevelt, as president of America, the United States was able to grow exponetially in improving all aspects of life including; socially, politically, and economically

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    Impact of the Muckrakers during the Industrial Revolution During the Progressive Era was the upbringing of the Muckraking. An investigating journalism. That during the time exposed corruption and abuse. The Muckrakers gave detailed and accurate of political economic corruption and other hardships of large business in the industrializing United States. The name Muckraker was giving when the term was used by President Theodore Roosevelt; during his speech on April 14, 1904 “which spoke of a man with

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    Progressive Era Project In the speech, “Brother’s Keeper,” Eugene Debs confesses his reason to care for his brothers. Debs makes an accurate point because he admits that he feels morally obligated to himself to care for his brothers. Debs hones in on the fact that people are very entitled and egocentric. He connects the emotional response of people in their surroundings to the anchor that distinguishes all as humans. Debs hooks the privileged to become morally obligated. In his speech, “My Brother’s

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