Friday Oct 18th 8:00 AM DUE Youngmin Son How did the Progressive movement successfully improve the lives of the average American between 1890 and 1920? Between 1890 and 1920‚ the progressive movement successfully improved the lives of the average American. The purpose of the progressive was to bring reforms that would correct problems that industrialization and urbanization had created troubling social and political problems. Some problems included women’s right to vote‚ child
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Published in 1890 and sub-titled “Studies Among the Tenements of New York”‚ this book was written by Jacob Riis‚ a Danish immigrant‚ to expose the ill treatment of the tenement poor in New York City. The book grew out of both his personal experience in the neighborhoods he wrote about‚ and his work as a reporter for the New York Tribune‚ where he started working as a police reporter in 1877. He pioneered the use of flash photography‚ allowing him to capture and communicate in a very concrete way
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National Parks It has taken decades and continuous generational work to increase the areas of land that are protected from the drastic changes that humans bring to nature. Because of the labor of past generations‚ great amounts of effort have been forthput to protect regions of forests‚ deserts‚ bodies of water‚ and more. There is a great need to preserve the current National Parks across the nation‚ and continue to create new preservations to maintain the natural beauty of our nation. Dating
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From the late 1800s to after World War II‚ the United States moved from the idea of isolationism to greater involvement in world affairs. The United States became actively involved with several countries. The United States was now following a policy that some criticized as imperialism. Although American Imperialism had both benefits and drawbacks for the United States‚ the benefits outweigh the drawbacks for various reasons‚ such as improving the United States economy and opening up shorter routes
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to the quality of the meat. Details such as these caused an overwhelming response from the public. The White House was flooded with letters about issues regarded in the book and demands to see investigations and reforms. The president at the time‚ Theodore
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ages‚ authors have been known to use many of their life experiences in their literary works. They use certain moments that have been imprinted in their heads‚ because in some way these specific experiences have changed their lives. For instance‚ Theodore Roethke wrote the poem‚ “My Papa’s Waltz” in which he writes about a moment from his early childhood that probably affected him so deeply that he was never able to forget about it. This shows that certain moments in our childhood are particularly
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Miguel Flores History 110 Smedley Darlington Butler in my opinion can be considered one of the most influential Americans during the 1900s for his many successful accomplishments as a Marine Corps officer and an American Patriot. Some of these significant experiences he attained as a Marine which influenced his actions as a civilian later in life were; his solid leadership abilities during the assault in Peking‚ China‚ despite his young age‚ in his tour in Nicaragua where he learned tenacity while
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stated under the Monroe Doctrin‚ The United States has claimed the western hemisphere to be free of European Imperialism and influence without consent of any countries on the western hemisphere. Another document implemented under Theodore Roosevelt’s term the Roosevelt corollary‚ which was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine: stated the United States had the right to see other countries be orderly stable and prosperous if the United States saw a country to un-orderly and uncivilized it had the right
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President William McKinley was deeply ambivalent about the war against Spain. To justify the use of weapons in the far Pacific‚ for the occasion he sacrificed his pacifist tendencies in the name of national interest and evoked the injustice done to the Filipino people and the moral duty that requires the United States to go to the rescue. At the end of the Spanish-American war‚ after originally declaring that it would "be criminal aggression" for the United States to annex the archipelago‚ he reversed
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With the recent acquisition of the harbor at Pago Pago in Samoa‚ Imperialist sentiments began to rise in the United States during the 1890s. Americans were eager to expand beyond the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans‚ and the Spanish American War‚ which began with President McKinley’s declaration on April 11‚ 1898. The Treaty of Paris‚ signed in December of 1898‚ formally ended the war; Spain had ceded Cuba‚ Guam‚ and Puerto Rico to the United States‚ and the Spanish sold the Philippines for $20 million
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