Chapter Twenty-one The Rise of Progressivism Major Concepts 1 - A number of writers and reformers in the period 1865-1914 discussed the growing gap between wealth and poverty in the United States. Compare and contrast the following authors’ explanations for this condition and their proposals for dealing with it. A. Henry George‚ Progress and Poverty B. Edward Bellamy‚ Looking Backward C. Andrew Carnegie‚ The Gospel of Wealth D. William Graham Sumner‚ What Social Classes Owe to Each Other E
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HISTORY 2020 FIRST TAKE HOME EXAM You may use only class notes‚ your weekly outlines‚ and your text book. Nothing will be accepted from the Internet‚ or any other source. REMEMBER‚ USE OF THE INTENET IS PLAGARISM. YOU MUST EMPHASIZE CLASS NOTES AND OUTLINES! You may use your book‚ but your answers will not be correct if you do not provide responses which reflect the class lectures/discussions. YOU MUST DO YOUR OWN WORK! You are not to discuss‚ or work on the exam‚ with anyone else. All
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Roosevelt played a central role in the passage of the act but the act was strengthened by the muckrakers and Wiley. In contrast to Sullivan’s views‚ Historians C.C. Regier and Louis Filler view Roosevelt as having more of an insignificant job regarding the act’s passage (9‚ 75-76). Filler states that it was purely a chance that Roosevelt was president during the time of the passage. Filler focuses on the muckraker journalists who‚ he considered‚ to play the primary role in the establishment of the Pure
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labor laws and to the government economically. Limitations were also a part of this movement‚ however there were many reforms that took place and led the Progressive Era to be effective in a successful way. Much attention was brought up by muckrakers‚ who were journalists who supported the reform movement and reported about what went on behind open and closed doors. Exposing these secrets led to American society to reform itself. Many new laws were being passed due to
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1.5.3 Test (TS): Populism and Progressivism U.S. History Sem 2 (S2558062) Points possible: 60 Test Corina Reyes Date: ____________ The Big Question How did farmers‚ activists‚ workers and politicians face the problems of industrial America during the Populist and Progressive Eras? Section 1: Short-answer questions (30 points) In this section‚ you will write a two- to three-sentence response to each of the following items. Remember to use examples and be specific. 1. What factors caused many
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was very easy for a machine worker to lose fingers and sometimes even limbs. These conditions‚ along with long unfair hours would prove to be too much for workers and often led to strikes. As more and more of these horrors became exposed by the “muckraker” journalists at the time‚ the federal government would start to intervene and put a stop to the poor treatment of employees. Along with the mistreatment of workers there was also the mistreatment of immigrants and African Americans. As Europeans
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tremendously‚ in the categories of Presidential leadership‚ political reform‚ business and labor reform and urban and social reform. Muckrakers were the first of the Progressives‚ average citizens pushing for change to better the American people‚ and were a group of reporters who dug up the dirt or muck of the monopolies and the harsh practices of trusts‚ such muckrakers as Upton Sinclair‚ Ida Tarbell‚ and Lincoln Steffens. Presidential leadership was first put into practice by Teddy Roosevelt who with
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also worked under unsafe conditions and received very low pay. After living and working under such awful conditions for quite some time‚ many writers addressed the problems in their work in hopes of making a change. These writers are also known as muckrakers. Many
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the varying effectiveness of presidents. Reformers looking to improve the working conditions of the progressive Era made significant headway in their attempted reforms‚ though they were eventually limited by the decisions of the supreme courts. Muckrakers (people who wrote critiques on society and its faults) like Upton Sinclair wrote pieces of literature that called for reform. In particular Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was one of the sole motivations for Congress to pass the United States Meat Inspection
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This thought evolved with the Criminologist and Sociologist Edwin H. Sutherland‚ in the year 1939‚ who popularised the term ̳white collar crimes‘ by defining such a crime as one ―committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.‖ Sutherland also included crimes committed by corporations and other legal entities within his definition. Sutherland‘s study of white collar crime was prompted by the view that criminology had incorrectly focused on social
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