Lloyd George of Dwyfor‚ (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945)‚ was a British Liberal politician and statesman. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and led a Wartime Coalition Government between 1916 and 1922 and was the Leader of the Liberal Party from 1926 to 1931. During a long tenure of office‚ mainly as Chancellor of the Exchequer‚ he was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. He was the last Liberal to serve as Prime Minister
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decimated the artistically characterized luxurious lifestyles of many Americans and destroyed any existing prosperity for the general population eradicating billions in assets overnight and exacerbating the looming problems of lower class instability from years of depression of farm prices after the first world war. In an attempt to reprimand the effects of both the short-term economic and decade-long economic rifts‚ in 1932‚ the newly elected Roosevelt administration implemented a series of federal
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women ’s rights‚ build religious and ethnic amity‚ end untouchability‚ and increase economic self-reliance. Above all‚ he aimed to achieve Swaraj or the independence of India from foreign domination. for main article go to Virchand Gandhi Virchand Gandhi:Virachand Raghav Gandhi (Gujarati: વીરચંદ રાઘવ ગાંધી; VRG 1864–1901) was from Mahuva . He is 19th Century Indian patriot who was friend of Mahatma Gandhi and contemporary to Swami Vivekanand. He and swami vivekananda drew equal attention at the first
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Progressive DBQ At the start of the 20th century‚ the United States were experiencing many changes in the ways that their economics and politics operated. After the Civil War‚ Restoration‚ and the Gilded Age‚ the Progressive Era was a time the United States could establish the principles of the country and begin to build what America is today‚. With large monopolies running the nation’s economy‚ such as those run by J.P. Morgan‚ Carnegie‚ Rockefeller‚ and Vanderbilt‚ many people sought Reformation
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Life before the Progressive Era consisted of a more industrialized America. Along with this came poverty‚ violence‚ and greed. The Progressive Era was an attempt to address these issues that came with the rapid industrialization in the U.S. The people that supported this thought that the problem could be resolved by providing the population with a better education‚ ensuring a safer work environment‚ and a more productive workplace. The Progressive Era changed society by causing more people to
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The impact of the automobile between 1900 through 1945 was immense. It paved the way for a future dependency on the automobile. To paint a better picture‚ imagine life without an automobile. Everyday life would be dull‚ cumbersome‚ and tedious. An individual’s mobility would be very limited. Basically‚ the life without an automobile could not be fathomed. The importance of the automobile is often taken for granite. Society may not know what appreciate the impact of the automobile and effects it has
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Both the Progressive Era and FDR’s New Deal reforms focused on the discrepancies between the rich and the poor. Both sought to bring the poor on a more level playing field with the rich. They did this by involving the government. The Progressives did this by offering a minimum working wage and establishing unions to protect the workers from greedy monopolies. In the throes of the Great Depression‚ Roosevelt focused on economic recovery and also on the promotion of labor unions to make better
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people think in back to the late 19th and early 20th century‚ many think of men fighting in war‚ working in harsh factories‚ or working on a farm. But what about the women at this time? Many people believe men played the most important role in this era‚ but women were just as equally helpful. If it weren’t for what women did then‚ things would not be the same now. Women played just as important roles as men did. Without women‚ men couldn’t have done some of the important things they did back in
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of credit for the success of the Progressive movement. Notable muckrakers Jane Addams and Jacob Riis showed determination towards there being a change; each made sure to use their abilities to aid in not only a social way‚ but ask economically and politically‚ even to this day what they’ve done has made a massive impact. A native of Denmark‚ Jacob Riis moved to the US in 1870 to pursue work. Riis worked as a police reporter‚ but eventually became a social reformer. He fought to eliminate the devastating
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From the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century‚ there were lots of reform efforts in an era called the Progressive Era. Many of these reform were extremely successful. Some of the main reforms during the Progressive Era included living conditions in cities as well as reform efforts in the workplace. These reforms were extremely important because they led to happier populus as well as less deaths. During the Progressive Era there was a political party that was called the Progressive
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