rights‚ and workers’ rights. The philosophies‚ agendas‚ strategies‚ and approaches of these leaders and organizations are different yet similar. It was difficult for the Progressive activists to present a united front. There is also evidence of Progressivism that we see in our modern lives’. Essentially‚ the biggest group that played a key role in the fight for the Progressive agenda was the Muckrakers. Muckrakers were
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Progressive Era as just another battle between the forces of democracy and the forces of the privilege. Richard Hofstadter has a more skeptical attitude and says that history progressed through a cycle of conflicts along economic lines. He says progressivism was led by men who suffered from the harsh events of their time through the changed pattern of respect and power. Food and drug reforms were passed during the time of the progressive era because muckraking writers‚ especially middle class urbanites
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reap the benefits of these changes. Progressive reformers worked to correct the flaws in government and to improve social equality. Progressivism is characterized by the overall feeling that the government must play a role to solve social problems and to restore not only the American society‚ but its values and institutions as well. The success of progressivism is owed much to the publicity generated by the muckrakers who detailed the horrors of poverty‚ dangerous factory conditions‚ and urban
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Progressive Party due to the fact that it helped to give more power to the workers and promoted economic equality. Much of the attractiveness to the progressive party was as a result of the muckrakers. These were investigative journalists who propelled Progressivism by exposing corruption‚ economic monopoly‚ and moral decay in the American society. Through magazines such as The Crisis and McClure’s‚ muckrakers successfully exposed the problems of American Society with the new innovation of the photograph.
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AP US History Mrs. Norris 6th hour Sample DBQ Response to demonstrate document integration Prompt The 1920s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested The firestorm of the Great War revealed an American society rife with conflict and opposing values. Americans reacted to the legacy of the war with new political doctrines‚ contentious
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Although the Progressive movement is usually seen as a great achievement in the history of American development‚ some feel that the Progressives failed to comply with the standards of equality and justice they had set out to create. The Progressive movement was instigated as a reaction to the political and corporate abuses created by the Industrial Revolution‚. Religious groups‚ members of the press‚ and radical political groups had all been hungering for reform‚ with solutions ranging from subtle
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philosophy provides a basis for decisions regarding curriculum. Through these philosophes aims and objectives‚ organization and selection of content is determined. There are four major philosophies which include perennialism‚ essentialism‚ Progressivism and reconstructivism Perennialism: Perennialism is the philosophy that is based on the belief that the focus of education should be the ideas that have lasted over centuries. These ideas should be a part of curriculum so that
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historian David W. Southern notes in his recent book‚ The Progressive Era and Race: Reform and Reaction‚ 1900–1917‚ the very worst of it—disfranchisement‚ segregation‚ race baiting‚ lynching—“went hand-in-hand with the most advanced forms of southern progressivism.” Racism was the norm‚ not the exception‚ among the very crusaders romanticized by today’s activist
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The Progressive Era The Progressive Era was an important time in U.S history. During the Progressive Era many people were treated unfairly. For example there was child labor‚ discrimination against African Americans‚ and women suffrage during this era. This led too much rebellion across the United States. Child labor was heavy during the Progressive era. Many families were forced to send their children into the work force in order to survive as soon as they were old enough. They worked in factories
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Gov’t had to take more responsibility and they could’t have any more laissez-fare officers Well before 1900 and after‚ politicians and writer had began to pin point targets for the progressive attack The social Gospel promoted a brand of progressivism based on Christian based teaching to help get better housing and living conditions for the poor. many women improved the fight for their list of needed reforms The Progressive had their roots with the Green Back labor party and the populist
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