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    In a time where the struggles of the common class were ignored how did change occur? In order to answer this question one must understand the issues themselves. During the Industrial Era America was in a so called ¨golden era¨. The nation was on the rise with urbanization and industrialization increasing each day but with this progress came a price. The working conditions were horrendous‚ employees were paid very little for their long hours and their home lives were even worse. There seemed to be

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    William Mckinley

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    William McKinley Born on January 29‚ 1843‚ William McKinley would later in life grow up to be a very important factor and figure in America’s History. He was born in Niles‚ Ohio and grew up in Poland‚ Ohio where him and his family made their life. He was the seventh of eight kids living life like most young boys. He was raised by his father and mother‚ who instilled in him strong work ethics‚ respect‚ honesty‚ and courtesy and taught him to value prayer. One thing that McKinley valued highly

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    The Progressive Agenda

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    appeared that their goal may have been to turn the immigrants into middle class citizens like themselves. It seems that the Progressive Party of 1912 was made up of a lot of “do good” people‚ and in a sense it was. There were people like Theodore Roosevelt‚ Jane Addams‚ Lillian Wald and Carrie Nation‚ just to name a few. The platform of the Progressive Party was long and covered a lot of social and industrial justice issues including women’s suffrage‚ child labor laws and the shorter work day

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    Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11‚ 1884‚ to a prominent family in New York City. After her parents died‚ she was taken in by her grandmother and educated at the best schools. Eleanor Roosevelt was deeply influenced by her feminist headmistress Marie Souvestre at Allenwood Academy in London. Eleanor Roosevelt is best known for being the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ the thirty-second president of the United States‚ and the First Lady of the United States‚ however she is also well known

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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    Book Report: Franklin Delano Roosevelt US History 1302 Submitted to: John D. Boswell May 2‚ 2012 Freedman‚ Russell. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. New York:Clarion Books‚ 1990. I selected the book Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Russell Freedman for my book review. The book was published by Clarion Books and text copyrighted in New York in 1990. This book traces the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt all the way from this birth in 1882 through his youth‚ early political career‚ and presidency

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    government could fix social problems‚ government itself needed to be fixed. Muckrakers were a group of crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption. Muckrakers were given that name after a speech by President Theodore Roosevelt on April 4‚ 1906 in Washington‚ D.C. “Now‚ it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake; and there are times and places where

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    Grover

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    The Guardian President: Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland was born on March 18‚ 1837‚ in Caldwell‚ New Jersey‚ to Ann Neal and Richard Falley Cleveland‚ a Presbyterian minister. Grover Cleveland was a tough opponent of political corruption who fiercely guarded the integrity of the offices in which he served. The first Democrat elected after the Civil War‚ Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later. The fifth of nine children

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    The Progressive Era

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    The Progressive Era was a period of time when mass groups of people pushed for major changes. Some became successful while others weren’t. Many different approaches were used to try and change four areas. They were protecting social welfare‚ promoting moral improvement‚ creating economic reform‚ and fostering efficiency. The Progressives believed in four major principles which are demonstrated in the actions they took to support them. One objective the Progressives enforced was protecting social

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    financial aspects of the country. When the stock market crashed and the economy was in shambles the federal government had to take a different approach to how the country’s money should be run. President Franklin Roosevelt was the driving force in this shift of government. When Roosevelt came into office in 1932 he had a new vision for the country. The president before him‚ J Edger Hoover‚ took the trickle down approach by not stimulating the poor

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    dare mighty things‚ to win glorious triumphs‚ even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much‚ because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” In the words of Theodore Roosevelt‚ it is better to experience the sufferings and joys of life than to live without knowing both victory and defeat‚ it can relate to all of us‚ each and every one. Stating that all of life’s battles are checkered with many failures‚ and in order

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