Andrew Carnegie grew up in Dunfermline‚ Scotland and immigrated along with his family to the United States in the late 1800s. He worked his way up from being a poor Irish immigrant to become one of the most famous industrialists that helped transform the U.S steel industry in the late 19th century. Andrew Carnegie was a hero in many ways. One reason why Andrew Carnegie was a hero was because of his influences on renovating the American steel industry which helped create the U.S a world power. Secondly
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Jane Addams Jane Addams was a pioneer‚ American settlement worker‚ a founder of the Hull House in Chicago‚ a public philosopher (the first American woman to be given that title)‚ an author‚ a pacifist and a feminist leader. In September of 1889‚ Ellen Gates Starr and her founded the Hull House in Chicago. She used Hull House to keep families safe and to improve community and societal conditions. Ellen and Jane developed three ethnic principles for social settlements: to teach by example‚ to practice
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Social Darwinism gained popularity in European nations in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Social Darwinism supports the idea that people were engaged in a competition or “struggle for survival” in which the weakest people and nations would be destroyed and dominated while the strong grew in power and influence. Great Britain applied this idea to China and infiltrated the land and its systems. The British would send missionaries throughout the land and try to convert the Chinese to Christianity
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the life of social worker pioneer Jane Addams whose accomplishments continues even today to provide a platform of discussion of issues both past and present. Jane Addams achievements continue to have a significant impact on the Social work field of practice today. Some of the challenges she wanted to overcome was to mandate legislation on a local‚ state‚ and federal level‚ which allowed all people to receive the assistance they needed regardless of race‚ sex social class or religion. Jane came from
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W.E.B. DuBois made an argument that “the problem of the twentieth century is the color line.” After only covering the first third of the twentieth century it is a problem but not this main problem. The problem that was larger was the class disparity revolving around wages and working conditions. The color line was mainly a problem in the south where there was the most diversity. The labor dispute spanned coast to coast and was in the North and the South. The main points are the great steel strike
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possessed by a “hero”. Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist who supported capitalism‚ and Social Darwinism‚ free enterprise and economic competition. He favored the idea that the most superior people in society naturally rise to the top. He was born in 1835 in the attic of a weaver’s cottage in Dunfermline‚ Scotland. Carnegie´s family faced poverty‚ which caused him to begin work at the age of 12 to contribute to his family’s responsibilities. Working 12 hours a day‚ Carnegie earned 1 dollar and 20
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Jane Addams: Women’s Rights In the saddening harsh reality of this world‚ some people experience the inequality and discrimination because of their morals‚ gender‚ ethnicity‚ etc. Having different perspectives can automatically separate one because of their differences. Some people may speak and elaborate about it‚ and others are willing to take a stand for what they feel is wrong or right. On September 6‚ 1860 was the birth of a human being who spoke out and took a stand for what she thought was
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19th Century Industrialization Nineteenth Century Industrialization During the second half of the nineteenth century‚ the United States experienced an urban revolution unparalleled in world history up to that point in time. As factories‚ mines‚ and mills sprouted out across the map‚ cities grew up around them. The late nineteenth century‚ declared an economist in 1889‚ was "not only the age of cities‚ but the age of great cities." Between 1860 and 1910‚ the urban population grew from 6 million
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all care for the workforce. Economic circumstance forced women to act as nurses‚ childminders‚ cooks and cleaners. Similarly men were forced to sell their labour power to provide food and accommodation. The state
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Why were there so many violent pogroms in Russia in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Contemporary sources on this topic have often pointed to the Russian authorities claiming they incited the violence that was prevalent towards Jews in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact John Doyle Klier claims that “almost without exception secondary sources argue that the tsarist authorities actively planned‚ encouraged or at least welcomed pogroms”.[1] While there
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