yet all of them had the same goal‚ which was to make the United States better for the people. This era was the start of building a better economy likewise fighting inequality against Women and African Americans. Reformers such as Alice Paul‚ Carrie Chapman Catt‚ Booker T. Washington and Du Bois fought equal rights and economic opportunities that helped influence future efforts
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~Dwight L. Moody This man‚ part of the social gospel movement‚ proclaimed the gospel of kindness and forgiveness and adapted the old-time religion to the facts of city life and founded an institute in 1889 ~James Gibbons An American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877‚ and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death in 1921. Gibbons was elevated to the cardinalate in 1886‚ the second American to receive that distinction. ~Salvation
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was a complex movement within the United States that underwent the five necessary stages needed for sociological change to occur. At the beginning of Iron Jawed Angels‚ a British suffragette Alice Paul along with Lucy Paul were talking with Carrie Chapman Catt in order to receive a permit to hold a parade to promote the suffragette
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land-grant colleges Colleges and universities created from allocations of pubic land through the Morrell Act of 1862 and the Hatch Act of 1887. These grants helped fuel the boom in higher education in the late nineteenth century‚ and many of the today’s public universities derive from these grants. liberal Protestants Members of a branch of Protestantism that flourished from 1875 to 1925 and encouraged followers to use the Bible as a moral compass rather than to believe that the Bible represented
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Origins of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S. During America’s early history as a nation‚ women were denied some of the key rights enjoyed by male citizens. For example‚ married women couldn’t own property and had no legal claim to any money they might earn‚ and no female had the right to vote. Women were expected to focus on housework and motherhood‚ not politics. Wyoming‚ the first state to grant voting rights to women‚ was also the first state to elect a female governor. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977)
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Chapter Twenty-one The Rise of Progressivism Major Concepts 1 - A number of writers and reformers in the period 1865-1914 discussed the growing gap between wealth and poverty in the United States. Compare and contrast the following authors’ explanations for this condition and their proposals for dealing with it. A. Henry George‚ Progress and Poverty B. Edward Bellamy‚ Looking Backward C. Andrew Carnegie‚ The Gospel of Wealth D. William Graham Sumner‚ What Social Classes Owe to Each Other E
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In the early days‚ women didn’t shared the same rights as men because women were seen as maintaining their position at homes and leaving men to politics just because they were seen as delicate compared to men (which in other words showed women unequal to men). However‚ it was just a matter of time when women realized that they’re not receiving their basic rights in United States. This lead women to fight against inequality but‚ it wasn’t easy at all because they had to face long struggle known as
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Although a “corrupt bargain”‚ the election of 1824 began a period in American history in which the needs of the “common man” were addressed instead of those of the New England Federalists or aristocratic plantation owner. One of the most remarkable changes surrounding the Jacksonian Period was the advent of universal white male suffrage. In addition‚ presidential campaigns had to evolve in order to reach a mostly uneducated‚ uninformed majority. Finally‚ reform movements sprung up that contributed
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Riley Mangieri 12-19-15 Mr. Rauschenbach 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
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A Brief History of Women’s Rights Movements The prominent figures and notable events of women’s rights movements in America and beyond Women’s rights movements are primarily concerned with making the political‚ social‚ and economic status of women equal to that of men and with establishing legislative safeguards against discrimination on the basis of sex. Women’s rights movements have worked in support of these aims for at least two centuries‚ from the first feminist publication in 1792‚ entitled A
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