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US Societal Values and the Progressive Era

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

Western US Cities

thing in multiples, rather than in the terms of one person, or family moving from a farm to city, and getting a new street address...

Reform During the Progressive Era

morality within the corporate structure, essential concepts that were all but absent from any standpoint. Indeed, the very issues...

Political Discord and the Reactive Progressive Era

the 1880 and 1890s as the Populist Movement and later, after 1890, as the Progressive Movement (2003). Both were considered grass...

The U.S. in the Progressive Era

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...

Comparative Analysis of the US Progressive Era and American Life During the 1920s

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the changes that occurred between the Progressive Era and the 1920s in the United ...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Evolution of the Nation

In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...

Changes in America, 1877-1900

the cities were no longer small enough to be "walking cities" (Chapter 19, 2005). In addition, in a move that we still see today, ...

Development of Social Work

p. 130). Figures from the early part of the century reveal that "50 to 66 percent of working families were poor and that a third ...

Progressive Era to Present Day Social Welfare Policies

value outside the home during this era working as social workers (Wikipedia, 2006). There was an emphasis on social justice, equal...

The Road Towards Social Change and Full World Immersion

and many positive changes came about as a result. Those changes came to some at least represented a frontal assault on the fundam...

Government During the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

prior to the Gilded Age, demonstrate a clear sense of evolution towards greed and power. Land policy involved, in one respect, w...

Race in America

Plessey would be law until much later, down the road, when Brown v. Board of Education would alter things, suggesting that separat...

E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and History

of the nation. We see this in the turmoil of the families presented in the novel, and in the issues which relate to such condition...

Progressive Era and Modern Issues

the sentiments of the time very well when he said that political leaders had to use Hamiltonian means to ensure Jeffersonian ends ...

Citizen, State, and Social Welfare

in many areas. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late, it can be stated. Most of the conditions that were addressed by the Pro...

A Consideration of American History from 1865 until 1945

The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...

Essay Explication on Three Varying Topics

This 9 page paper examines three essays in detail, comparing and contrasting the concepts used. The papers are entitled Robust Sat...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Social Change Promoted by Empowerment

through empowerment can have. One of the most interesting of these, however, can be found in regard to labor issues in the early ...

Review of America's Progressive Era

as progressive as it may have seemed at the time, in hind sight, it may have only served to make matters worse. Immigration wa...

Women's Rights in America

This paper examines women's rights in America during the antebellum and progressive eras in a contrasting and comparison of Declar...

Progressive Era and Government's New Role

the 1890s (Mattson 337). The reformers tried to improve the status of direct democracy through such things as the social center mo...

Progressive Era and the Influence of John Pierpont Morgan

This paper considers the influence J.P. Morgan had during the Progressive Era in seven pages with industry perceptions of Morgan a...

History of Ohio from the Civil War Through the 1960s

In eleven pages this paper examines the economic and political history of Ohio with such topics of Cincinnati's industrial evoluti...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

Colonial Missions in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, at the current site of the city of Freetown. The newly-freed slaves did not fare well in Freetown; they suffered fr...

Religion and Secularization

theory of the secular, in other words, the idea that religion would fade in significance as the industrial society grew in importa...