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The Progressive Era was a period of economic and social struggle which cause rapid industrialization in America. A Widespread of social activism and political reform across the United States. The Progressive Era was addressing the problems of economic and social problems. The progressivism started as a social movement and later grew into a political movement. The reformers of the Progressive Era were young, college educated, and in the middle-class. Although many laws were passed to regulate better

The Industrial Revolution took place in the 18th and 19th centuries and changed the course of agriculture, capitalism, and society. Through this revolution many countries, like America and Great Britain, became industrialized and sought to use hand powered tools and technology to manufacture goods. This brought tremendous results in society. In places like Great Britain the economy increased (as did the population), it raised living conditions for the middle and upper class, and people were wealthier

from America’s rapid industrialization. During the Progressive era, America faced several international, political, and social challenges that would set us on the road to the society in which we now live. During the Depression of the 1890s, the National Association of Manufacturers argued that the American economy could only expand with new foreign markets. They wanted President William McKinley to bring American to every corner of the globe. Later on, there was a reemergence of Cuban independence

change unfair social conditions, so he started by taking pictures of immigrants on Ellis Island. He liked to focus more on the people, rather than objects. Lewis Hine became one of the best known photographers. He was hired in 1906 by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) to take photos of children at work to raise awareness for child labor. He had to sneak into dangerous locations, and sometimes even had to be disguised. He talked to child laborers, and asked about their ages and their work, to

The progressive Era was times in History were local state and federal government took a leap forward in power and activism. In addition, the progressive era, was a time of development of new reforms and changes for America. Progressivism handles a wide range of problems and struggle for America. Such problems were created by unstructed industrialization, urbanization and immigration. As well as, the unfavorable distribution of power and wealth. Progressives believed strongly that problems such as

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The progressive era was a period of time of widespread social activism and political reform across the united states. It started in 1890’s and ended in the 1920’s really not that long ago. The purpose of this to eliminate problems that were caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in the government.The gilded age was the time between the civil war and world war 1. The population had grown in the U.S as well as the economy as that started to happen political corruption

robber barons, were selfish and could care less about the wellbeing of these kids. Reformers saw the horrors that were being inflicted and decided to take action. They sought to protect the children and expose corruption. In 1904, the National Child Labor Committee was established with hopes of minimalizing child labor in America. They attacked the businesses with investigations and reached out to the public for support by sending photographs and pamphlets to dramatize the poor conditions these children

Lewis W. Hine an activist and post-modern photographer known for the documentation of Immigrants on Ellis Island that started his career. Exposed the truth of child workers. He also recovered the name of a nation by photographing the atrocity of child labor. His work lend to the passing of the Keating-Owen Child Labor act (1916), or government projects. Lewis W. Hine swung on a special designed basket, above the streets of New York during the construction of the Empire State Building. photojournalism

Introduction Since the beginning of time, child labor has been a very complex issue in the United States. “Child labor refers to work that impedes children’s access to education and is harmful to their physical, mental, moral, developmental, and social well-being” (Schmitz, Traver, Larson, & Pieris, 2004, p. 1). Exploitation from cruel to harmful is considered and reported as child labor. A child is a person under eighteen years of age, according to the Rights of the Child convention of 1989 (Schmitz