While neither writer directly addresses the lives of black women, the ambivalence suggested by this absence, particularly in The Women of America, must be read in conjunction with the work of advocates for women's rights who either subtly or aggressively promoted white supremacy. This article ...
Indeed, progressive presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and the philosopher John Dewey, strongly supported America’s entry into World War I, not only because they believed, with President Wilson, that the country had a duty to “make the world safe for democracy,” but ...
Progressivism has been around since the Enlightenment and continues to this day. The activities in this lesson are designed to help students dive deeper into progressivism and its role in society. Progressivism Defined Progressive is a broad term that has been used to describe everything from a se...
As president, he rarely openly rebelled against the leaders of his party. He allied himself with those progressives who urged regulation of the trusts. During the 1904 campaign for the presidency, Roosevelt boasted that he had worked in the anthracite coal strike to provide everyone with a “...
Within a 60-day period in the summer of 1984, New York governor Mario M. Cuomo delivered two of the most comprehensive and important speeches in defense of liberalism in America in the last 30 years. They arguably represent, in tandem, the most proximate statements of Democratic Party progres...
AMERICA SEEKS REFORMS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY Progressivism Us history goal 7. Progressivism Us history goal 7. Muckrakers Investigative journalists who highlight corruption, abuse, or unsafe conditions in industry, society, or politics and call for reform. ...
W.E.B. Du Bois Born in Massachusetts (1868) Preferred America’s economy being more about industry than agriculture. He opposed Booker. T. Washington’s beliefs that segregation was necessary. 1895; Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Introduced...
and despair that accompanied overdrinking. As Mark Lender and Edward Martin note in their 1982 history of Drinking in America, "[u]rban Progressives viewed temperance as a means to alleviate poverty and to clean up the political corruption spread through insidious saloons," where machines like ...
What was the main goal of the progressive movement of the early 1900s that helped America experience the rise of modern industrialism? What is the legacy of the Progressive era and the New Deal with respect to American economic policy? What are the four dimensions of liberalism? What does soc...
Editor of McClure's, a magazine known for uncovering social issues, who published a collection of articles on political corruption in America's cities ("The Shame of the Cities") Jacob Riis Photographer who focused his attention on the tenement buildings of New York's urban poor in order to...