Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

As the 19th century came to a close a new epoch, known as the Progressive Era emerged in response to industrialization. This early 20th century reform movement pursued control of the government to the people. In order to reinstate economic opportunities and to correct inequity in American life. Progressives believed that government could be used as a powerful tool for social improvement (Gillon, Matson 2009). Although the Progressive ideal was presented by numerous Progressive authors of different

The Progressive Era in America lasted from the 1890’s to the 1920’s. During this time, The United States underwent several changed, or reforms. These reforms helped to shape our nation into what it is today. There are 10 reforms I’m going to discuss in this essay including the reforms on civil rights, conservation, government reform, health and medicine, labor reform, radical trade unionism, socialism, temperance, trust busting, and women’s rights. The Civil Rights reform was perhaps one of the

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Even though he had humble beginnings, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, a single man, made a profound effect on the entire United States during his career. By following his life and what shaped McCarthy as an individual, a broader picture is brought into the scope of the cause of his false accusations. In the year 1908, in the northeast region of Wisconsin on a struggling farm, a devout Roman Catholic couple brought a their son, Joseph Raymond, into the

Muckraking columnists were pointing out the misuse of child work, corruption in city governments, the awfulness of lynching, and the savage business practice. It was also the era that included Progressive leaders such as Theodore Roosevelt; Robert M. La Follette, Sr.; Charles Evans Hughes; and Herbert Hoover on the Republican side, and William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, and Al Smith on the Democratic

others policy and government wise. A person who can show that socialism and progressivism is similar is Charles Sandburg, who had some of his “Dear Bill” essays in the issues of La Follette’s Weekly in the summer of 1909. La Follette’s Weekly was founded by progressive Wisconsin Republican governor Robert M. La Follette Sr. In those essays, Mr. Sandburg expressed his social and progressive values. He states for example that he is a socialist because they were the first to fight for the abolishment

Joseph McCarthy was born in the Town of Grand Chute in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, in November 14,1908. And He died in Bethesda, Maryland, in May 2, 1957. Joseph McCarthy graduated from the law department of the Marquette University. After he graduated from the University, he became a lawyer who worked on Shawano, Wisconsin. His wife is Jean Fraser Kerr Minetti, and they had one daughter who named Tierney Elizabeth McCarthy. Joseph McCarthy was the famous American Republican politician. He also

International Hemp Association Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Cultivation in the Tai 'an District of Shandong Province, Peoples Republic of China Robert C. Clarke Naturetex International B.V. Van Diemenstraat 192 1013 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands Clarke, R.C. 1995. Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Cultivation in the Tai 'an District of Shandong Province, Peoples Republic of China. Journal of the International Hemp Association 2(2): 57, 60-65. This paper summarizes the history of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) cultivation