Chapter 16 1.) All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT: Question options: | a) | availability of capital for investment. | | b) | a growing supply of labor. | | c) | abundant natural resources. | | d) | low tariffs. | | e) | federal land grants to railroads. | | | 1 / 1 point | 2.) By 1890‚ the majority of Americans: Question options: | a) | worked as farmers. | | b) | worked as independent craftsmen
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The tragic story of the fire occurring at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company was very compelling because it brought attention to the events leading up to the fire. The working conditions for women during the Progressive Era were awful and didn’t actually ensure the safety and proper After the fire‚ the story rapidly spread inspiring hundreds of activists across the state and the U.S. to push for very much needed fundamental reforms. Many of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory workers were young
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The Gilded Age lasted from the post-Civil War industrial expansion to the Progressive Era. During the Gilded Age‚ the country experienced both rapid economic expansion as well as social turmoil. The American farmer experienced economic hardships caused by several factors. During this time the prices of commodities were going down as the cost of money was going up. Foreigners and western farmers were moving to the cities‚ thereby making apartments and work places extremely populated. The government
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of Roosevelt. The conservative and progressive sides of the Republican Party split. Taft could not keep up with Theodore Roosevelt’s policies. The election of 1912 was going to be a very exciting election with Taft‚ Roosevelt‚ and Wilson running. People were wondering about the evolution of social and economic effects on countryside industrial growth. The Spirit of Progressivism Progressivism changed all of America. New types of art came about. Progressives wanted to regulate big business not
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Throughout history‚ reform movements emerged‚ causing a tremendous social extension of reform from the late nineteenth century into the Progressive movement of 1900-1920. Subsequent to moving into the United States‚ immigrants had seen a new side of the impeccable nation it lead itself on to be‚ as many children previously living in America‚ were living in squalid conditions and were being exhausted through extensive and unsafe work. Along with immigrants‚ women in America were also beginning to
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There was dramatic change in America from 1850 to 1900. Before there were Progressives there were Populists. The Populist tried to bring to light the issues facing our country. They attempted to do this by gaining control of the governing body and have a President elected. The Progressives would succeed where they had not. Progressives were not the people of big business‚ they were the common people. Urban‚ Northeastern‚ educated‚ middle-class men and women that come together under an ideal of change
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justices blurred. Control and regulation of the businesses and its laborers led to a political tug o’ war. The urbanization of the Gilded Age provides a basis for the understanding of the country’s progress in a court of law and the events to follow the era. The compelling need to compete for jobs‚ as well as control of the business itself‚ was a driving force that had the potential to make or break the success of the times. James Bryce’s The American Commonwealth highlights the “neglect” of the details
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Reform in 1900 – 1920 The reform in the early 1900’s was a change that desperately needed to happen. From the meat industries exposure to child labor reform was no doubt required. Progressive era reformers and the federal government were two large advocates for reform‚ they made a huge impact in health and policy but the federal government still faced criticism. The push for reform on the health standards was definitely one of the biggest impacts in 1900-1920. An example being the meat industry
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and the provided documents. "Theodore Roosevelt was not a true progressive reformer‚ but rather a politician that responded to the political climate of the age." Progressivism originated as the optimistic vision that society was capable of improvement‚ and that continued growth and advancement were the nation’s destiny. This‚ however‚ would require direct‚ purposeful human intervention in social and economic affairs. Progressive reformers wished to limit the disperse authority and wealth by
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cultural‚ military and political force to be reckoned with. Because of the fair’s gigantic scale‚ it became a microcosm of the conflicts and the tenor of the times. In effect‚ the fair was the turning point between the old Victorian days and the modern era‚ technologically‚ culturally‚ politically‚ and in the hearts of the people of the US and the world. The United States of the Gilded Age was not the superpower is it today. At best‚ it was considered a powerful manufacturing and industrial country‚ but
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