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    Bertram D. Wolfe‚ Jay Lovestone‚ John Spargo‚ Rose Pastor Stokes and J.G. Phelps Stokes. Its stated purpose was to "throw light on the world-wide movement of industrial democracy known as socialism."  Explanation:His writing made a huge impact on social/political reforms...especially "The Jungle‚" which "exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry." After President  Criterion #3: Theodore Roosevelt fought for the labor movement. The labor movement wanted to make working conditions

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    2. The late 19th century was a time of rapid industrialization in the United States during which many people developed different views towards wealth and the wealthy class. Three specific viewers who had similar‚ but contrasting opinions of this were Andrew Carnegie‚ Eugene V. Debs‚ and Booker T. Washington who believed that wealth could either enable people to rise in society or that it should be distributed. Booker T. Washington’s stance of the wealth created was that it enabled people to rise in

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    Jane Addams‚ The Mother of Social Work For years‚ men and women have shared the same rights that every American citizen can expect to have today. The land of the free prides itself for being associated with the idea of freedom and equality. These rights are often taken for granted and seem superficial until they come under threat. By being an American citizen‚ one would expect that the American government would grant those rights to every legal citizen. However‚ it has only been about ninety six

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    AP US History Document Based Question To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Use the documents and your knowledge of United States history to 1914 to construct your answer. Document A Source: Thomas Nast. "The World’s Plunderers." Harper’s Weekly‚ 1885. Document B Source: Josiah Strong. Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present

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    Delivery to the world As the Modern Upheaval came to fruition in the late eighteenth century‚ generation systems tackled a very surprising scale. The cotton business was the focal point of this movement. Before the mechanical developments of the Modern Upset‚ India was the cotton fabricating focus of the world and sent out its materials everywhere throughout the world. Rivalry from imported cotton was a noteworthy reason for disdain for the conventional fleece industry in England. We have records

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    The Twenty-First Century Work Place Life in the early twentieth century was provided by secure factory jobs. The United States was an industrial area filled with factories. People without much education could work in the factories and know their jobs were safe. There was no schooling or special skills required. People worked in the factories and made enough money to support themselves and their families. Today‚ factories full of human workers are a rare thing in America. Most people now go to college

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    1873‚ the late nineteenth century was named The Gilded Age‚ thanks to Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. This reflected the time’s combination of dazzle and wealth along with poverty and inner corruption. Most historians define this period by it’s negatives‚ due to a lack of powerful presidents and cheap history. These people‚ Twain and Warner included‚ weren’t wrong about The Gilded Age’s corruption. However. there were also some of the most influential years in American history during this period

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    In the early 20th century‚ rivalries between European leaders and their countries created the conditions for war. These conditions were enhanced by militarism‚ alliances‚ imperialism‚ and nationalism. The Great Powers of Europe all used these causes to varying degrees. By 1907‚ most of the European nations had formed alliances to protect themselves from foreign aggression. Countries desires to maintain their culture and extend their borders frequently led to conflict. From 1914 to 1918‚ a war broke

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    period of rapid industrialization and great corruption in the United States. The conditions that defined this era in the history of still young country‚ where the graves still lay fresh from civil war and with the seams that were broken barley mended back together‚ would become the clamor of the nineteenth century. This riot was not just a random outbreak during a labor demonstration but rather a boiling over of a culmination of many factors that were building up in the late 19th century.

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    4. How has war shaped Australia in the twentieth century? Australia has been shaped through war since soldiers set to the First World War right up until the now with the war in Afghanistan. Aspects that made it controversial ideas from being a colony of Britain and the politics that came with it‚ development of treaties with other countries‚ social groups‚ and family honour. Being that Australia was apart of the British monarchy Australia sent many thousands of troops to fight for Britain during

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