During the industrial revolution‚ people were faced with urgent challenges brought on by a rapidly growing population and expanding economies. Cities were swelling‚ and industries were struggling to keep up with demand. This pressure for improvement spurred incredible innovation as people sought ways to make things more efficient and productive. The steam engine‚ for example‚ completely transformed how we transported goods and powered machinery. Advances in metallurgy and machinery enabled the construction
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While the middle class was born in the late Middle Ages‚ it exploded during the Industrial Revolution as massive numbers of workers entered the industrial factory system. The middle class exited on a spectrum between the lower end (consisting of small shopkeepers) and the higher end (consisting of capitalists who owned companies)‚ All were united by several desires and beliefs—an open expanding economy was ideal‚ prosperity was the loftiest ambition‚ competition was beneficial‚ and the success of
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A powerful surge of reform efforts emerges in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Reforms that were intended to help the United States deal with the extraordinary changes brought on by industrialization and urbanization. American reformers think of themselves as progressive‚ if fact this was the period that became what was known as the progressive era. With the word progressivism we outline a body of social thought that is not entirely coherent to do with dealing with the process of industrialization
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Grade 8 Progressives in the late 1800’s-1900’s Our nation lost its way during the Gilded Age (1870s-1920s). The Gilded Age was a term made up by Mark Twain due to him having a book called the Gilded Age‚ which satirized American society in the late 1800s. It was a time of government corruption‚ poverty‚ and awful labor conditions but it being covered up by big businesses‚ or “gilded”. Progressives were people who were advocating social reforms such as the prohibition of alcohol
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U.S. History March 5‚ 2013 Paper one first draft Progressive Era From 1815 to 1860 Industrialization was a problem in the world in the United States. During Industrialization immigrants came from eastern and western Europe. The reason why it was a problem because the immigrants came unskilled and with no jobs. They were also poor‚ catholic‚ Jewish‚ and likely to settle in cities rather than on farms. The families were so poor that they were living in tiny apartments with a lot of people. Because
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How successful were Cavour’s first five years of government? Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became Prime Minister of Piedmont in 1852‚ following his appointment as Minister of Trade‚ two years previously. He set out clear aims for his time as Prime Minister of Piedmont and achieved many successful changes in light of the modernisation of the state. He also sustained his own power but fell short of his goals regarding foreign policy. Historians may write that he did not achieve enough in many aspects
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The Progressive Era What were the motives behind the groups and individuals known as Progressives? The Progressive movement is a broad label for the various economic‚ social‚ and political reform movements that took place in the United States between 1900 and 1914. Throughout the Progressive Era‚ a common concern sets the tone for nearly every discussion of economic‚ social‚ and political policy: an uneasiness in the population brought about by the dramatic development of modern industry and
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Progressive Assessment 1) The Progressive reform movement can be best described as an approach to make life better and for people to be able to get away from unjust and problems faced. Progressivism was a reform movement concerned with curing ills caused by industrialization. The Progressive reform movement focused on rural problems and suburban problems‚ but for the most part the Progressive reform movement focused on Urban problems. Some examples of urban problems that the Progessive reform movement
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Progressivism implies a philosophy that welcomes innovations and reforms in the political‚ economic‚ and social order. The Progressive movement‚ 1901 to 1917‚ was ultimately the triumph of conservatism rather than a victory for liberalism. In a general sense‚ the conservative goals of this period justified the Liberal reforms enacted by Progressive leaders. Deviating from the traditional definition of conservatism (a resistance to change and a disposition of hostility to innovations in the political
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