Ap Us History
Short Answer Questions:
1. The progressives believed that growth and progress could not continue to occur recklessly, as they had in late nineteenth century. The “natural laws” of the marketplace , and the doctrines of laissez faire and Social Darwinism that celebrated those laws, were not sufficient to create the order, stability, and justice their growing society required. Direct, purposeful human intervention in social and economic affairs was essential to ordering and bettering society. Some progressives did not agree on the form their intervention should take, and the result was a variety of reform impulses that sometimes seemed to have a little on common. One powerful impulse was the spirit “anti-monopoly,” the fear of concentrated power and the urge to limit and disperse authority and wealth. Another progressive impulse was created because of the belief in social cohesion. The belief that individuals are not autonomous, but part of a great web of social relationships, that the welfare of any single person is dependent on the welfare society as a whole. That assumption produced concern about the “victims” of industrialization. The number of progressive reforms involved efforts to help women, children, industrial workers, immigrants, and, African Americans.
2. In the early twentieth h century, it was shown that indeed all progressives shared an optimistic vision that an active government and human intervention could solve and create a society that is in order. During industrialization, work efforts involved the labor of women, children, men, immigrants, and to some extent (lesser extent), African Americans. As a result of a large workforce, majority of employer neglected their workers by paying them next to little as well as working them to their limits. A usual industrial worker worked for about 16 hours a day. As a result, reforms by progressives were created to improve the lifestyle of these workers. In addition, the majority of progressives
1. The progressives believed that growth and progress could not continue to occur recklessly, as they had in late nineteenth century. The “natural laws” of the marketplace , and the doctrines of laissez faire and Social Darwinism that celebrated those laws, were not sufficient to create the order, stability, and justice their growing society required. Direct, purposeful human intervention in social and economic affairs was essential to ordering and bettering society. Some progressives did not agree on the form their intervention should take, and the result was a variety of reform impulses that sometimes seemed to have a little on common. One powerful impulse was the spirit “anti-monopoly,” the fear of concentrated power and the urge to limit and disperse authority and wealth. Another progressive impulse was created because of the belief in social cohesion. The belief that individuals are not autonomous, but part of a great web of social relationships, that the welfare of any single person is dependent on the welfare society as a whole. That assumption produced concern about the “victims” of industrialization. The number of progressive reforms involved efforts to help women, children, industrial workers, immigrants, and, African Americans.
2. In the early twentieth h century, it was shown that indeed all progressives shared an optimistic vision that an active government and human intervention could solve and create a society that is in order. During industrialization, work efforts involved the labor of women, children, men, immigrants, and to some extent (lesser extent), African Americans. As a result of a large workforce, majority of employer neglected their workers by paying them next to little as well as working them to their limits. A usual industrial worker worked for about 16 hours a day. As a result, reforms by progressives were created to improve the lifestyle of these workers. In addition, the majority of progressives