The Progressive Era Progressivism is an umbrella label for a wide range of economic‚ political‚ social‚ and moral reforms. These included efforts to outlaw the sale of alcohol; regulate child labor and sweatshops; scientifically manage natural resources; insure pure and wholesome water and milk; Americanize immigrants or restrict immigration altogether; and bust or regulate trusts. Drawing support from the urban‚ college-educated middle class‚ Progressive reformers sought to eliminate corruption
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The era between 1865 and 1877 is known as the Reconstruction Era. During the civil war the southern economy was destroyed. Plantations‚ crops‚ houses and railroads were ruined. They were ruined because the slaves were forced to work. The north consists of factories while the south consists of farming. The North and the South wanted to be their own part of land because they didn’t agree with each other. The South was most responsible for the shape of the New South due to social‚ economic‚ political
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2002 AP DBQ In the years following the War of 1812‚ the “Era of Good Feelings” evolved between the years 1815 and 1825. In the first half of this period‚ there was a strong sense of nationalism throughout the United States. However‚ political changes and economic differences between the states warped this nationalism into the sectionalism that divided the country into north‚ south and west regions. Celebrations of unity within the United States soon turned into disagreements concerning representation
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Shaping of North America - Pangea Split North America formed - “America’s Mountains” = Rockies‚ Sierra Nevada‚ Cascades‚ Coast Ranges Peopling the Americas - 35‚000 years ago = Ice Age Glaciers that connected Eurasia with N. America (present day Bering Sea) Nomadic Asian hunters (immigrant ancestors of the Natives) Trekked across the Bering isthmus for 250 centuries Reached far tip of S. America (15‚000 miles from Siberia) By the time Europeans arrived in 1492‚ 54 million people inhabited
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2003 AP US DBQ The Progressive Era was a twenty year period‚ between 1900 and 1920‚ of much change in the U.S. Many Americans would begin to stand up for what they believed was right. This would lead to a number of reforms to help improve American life. Laws passed under Presidents Roosevelt‚ Taft‚ and Wilson‚ would dramatically change this country all the way into the present time. As industry became a large part of urban America‚ many citizens were oppressed. Unfair and unsanitary conditions
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During the Renaissance era education was being highly encouraged. The people were trying to become a more successful community. Although they were encouraged to study and be successful they do acknowledge that not everyone was born to be a scholar. But for whom were they became the teachers and the writers to help the new scholars gain their knowledge. By this they will help future generations and it will be an ongoing cycle. To more extent‚ the Renaissance era overall just wanted to be
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the beginning of its change in history. The Regency era had ended as England’s new Queen‚ 18-year-old Victoria took the thrown. This new era is mostly known as the beginning of the Victorian era‚ which was obviously named after the reigning monarch‚ Queen Victoria. She was one of the first monarchs to see her name given to the period while she was still alive. She reigned from 1837 until she died in the year 1901‚ which marked the end of the era. This age marked a time of rapid change and developments
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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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The Victorian Era During the Victorian Era‚ social classes of England were newly reforming‚ and fomenting. There was a churning upheaval of the old hierarchical order‚ and the middle classes were steadily growing. Added to that‚ the upper classes’ composition was changing from simply hereditary aristocracy to a combination of nobility and an emerging wealthy commercial class. The definition of what made someone a gentleman or a lady was‚ therefore‚ changing at what some thought was an alarming rate
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Edward Pessen‚ the author of the book‚ Jacksonian America: Society‚ Personality‚ and Politics talks about “the Jacksonian era” or “Common Man” which begin in 1820s‚ where the supporters of Jackson began to form the modern Democratic Party in the America for both Americans and foreign people. “For not only did Americans themselves observe their fellow countrymen but an army of European‚ mainly English‚ visitors swarmed over this country during the Jacksonian era.” (Pessen 2). Andrew Jackson‚ who was
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