Before the Progressive Era women found themselves in traditional roles raising the family and keeping the families moral compass pointing in the proper manner. Many of them never considered life outside of them home‚ as this was how they were raised. In the advent of the beginning years of the Progressive Era with many of the largest companies controlling the largest chunks of America’s financial interests these same women were looking outside. By this I mean‚ the very important job they had raising
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Yu “Star” Zhang AMST 3225W AMST 3252W Final Paper Progressive Era: The Rising Power of Women We define the Progressive Era the time in American history at the turning point of the 20th century‚ the time when industrial Revolution has brought along rapid industrialization and economic development‚ but also severe conflicts in social groups. Between 1890s through 1920‚ waves of immigrations from outside of United States were arriving‚ numerous large cities were expanding‚ and as a result
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The Progressive Era had four goals‚ to protect social welfare‚ to promote moral improvement‚ to create economic reform‚ and to foster efficiency. The common people were positively impacted by the progressive era. The common people were trust busting to try and get rid of the trust. The Clayton Act strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act which outlawed unfair business. Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson helped the common people more than taft did. Roosevelt’s meat inspection act inspected the meat to make
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Progressive Era is when the world was going through a political and social change. Health care was starting to become more organized and structured‚ the creating of new medicine was becoming for popular than using old remedies and public health awareness was growing by providing information to the people. Health care had no choice but to change because of the changing population. People were living longer and the population of people was vastly increasing. With the increase of people health care
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thought to be the perfect size for children with small hands and fingers. Unfortunately‚ hands and feet would get caught‚ and children were easily injured. The environment in the factory was unhealthy; sickness from fumes was a norm. Grace Abbot‚ a Progressive Era reformer‚ attempted to pass the first child labor law in 1917 (“Children” 1). Congress struck down this legislation‚
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Cole American History I H 4 May 2013 The Progressives DBQ In the Progressive Era of American History‚ a lot changed. There were efforts to alleviate urban blight‚ corruption and economic issues. There were many approaches to this task‚ none of which were entirely successful. Overall they did alleviate many problems‚ but they didn’t effectively stop many of the more critical ones such as hunger‚ and the terrible conditions in tenements. The progressives did help the current situation to a point
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The Progressive Era also belongs to the age of American imperialism‚ where the US gained control of many oversea territories and interfered heavily with foreign politics. Progressive presidents employed three different ways to handle foreign politics: Roosevelt employed the aggressive “big stick” diplomacy foreign policy; Taft focused on economic growth with “dollar diplomacy”; while Wilson followed the Monroe Doctrine and intervened in Latin America with “moral diplomacy”. President Roosevelt utilized
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The 4 goals of the Progressive Era were; protecting social welfare‚ promoting moral improvement‚ creating economic reform. The purpose of all these goals were to correct injustices in American life‚ and restore economic opportunities‚ and return control of the government to the people. To me the most important goal is promoting moral improvement‚ because if anyone has a good morals you can improve people. You can improve people’s morals also to get more encouragement for the greater good of people
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From the 1890s to the 1920s‚ many citizens of the United States participated in social activism in order to bring about social and political change. “Muckrakers” played an essential role during this Progressive Era. These journalists had the objective of educating the public about issues and persuading more people to fight for reform‚ and they did so by exposing society’s flaws through their work. One of the most key muckrakers at the time was journalist and author Upton Sinclair‚ Jr. He wrote “The
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Another transformation that happened in the Progressive Era was the status of women. In the late 19th century‚ middle-class women created settlement houses in poor and urban neighborhoods‚ so they could carry out reform work in the surrounding neighborhoods. As these houses grew and evolved‚ settlement house workers started lobbying local‚ state‚ and national governments to pass reform legislation like minimum wage‚ workplace safety standards‚ and sanitation regulations. These settlement houses gave
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