August Wilson

Efforts for social reform by muckrackers and Progressive Era reformers were responsible for their present-day social developments and closely associated with today’s socioeconomic standings. As a nation, which was founded upon the ambition and need for social-environment modifications, the United States continually brings forth change and improvement. Muckrackers and Progressive Era reformers were the voice and advocate of the people. Their efforts, though some unsuccessful, were influential in…

He also created and revised his own doctrine of the original Monroe Doctrine where the US could intervene in international affairs of US Territory. I feel this helped with the superiority of the military and our expansion. Now with Woodrow Wilson, I feel that his presidency leaded more to chaos instead of success even though he promoted neutrality and foreign policy, and help alleviate a lot of tension, yet creating it as well. He set patterns for the way that America would fight in the future…

Kissing Flowers Now that I’m 16, grandma feels that I need to get out the house more. I work at the local clothing store downtown and I’m on the honor roll so, tonight I Decided to give it a shot. My older cousin, Karen, who is 16 as well, is taking me out to a party tonight. I’ve never been real big on partying because that’s all my mom did when she was pregnant with my little sister. “Mom you shouldn’t be drinking,” I said to her. She waddled around the house with a beer bottle in her…

faced with the question of what to do with this new power. John Milton Cooper Jr. describes Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson ability to control and make decisions in regard the U.S.’s power in The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Each president, although both considered modern and progressive, approached their presidential powers differently. Wilson and Roosevelt both had their strengths and weaknesses throughout their administrations with their use of power in…

promoting the general welfare of American citizens. The Progressive Era lasted from 1890 to 1920 and focused on eliminating problems caused by rapid industrialization. During these years, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson were the main Progressive presidents. They all caused social and political change in American society during this era. First and foremost, the Progressive movement endeavored to remove corruption from the government…

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and a leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He delivered his famous “I have a Dream” speech, at the Lincoln Memorial on 28 August 1963 in order to call for an end of racism in the United States. In his speech Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to convince the majority white United States government to give African Americans equal rights through the use of biblical and historical allusions, alliterations, and imagery. King…

Many Americans thought that isolationism west the best choice for the country at the time. They believed that America should worry about its problems and stay out of foreign issues. Support for isolationism came from many things, disillusionment with the League of Nations and its inability to stop Japanese aggression, thinking they were tricked by big business into entering World War I, and many Americans didn’t want to be involved because of the devastation from World War I and the Great…

Randolph Bourne, “War is the Health of the State,” 1918 In this document, Bourne, a Progressive author, addresses American citizens in an essay on the effects of war. Although many of Bourne’s fellow Progressives embraced war as a way to speed up the advancement of their socialist causes, Bourne rejected this opinion, insisting although war may seem to strength a nation through the renewal of nationalistic ties and improvement of the popular image of government, involvement in a war becomes a…

Immigration in the twentieth century continued to increase caused by the growth of opportunities in the United States. Continued growth of immigration continued the need for reform. The “Anarchist Exclusion Act of 1903 added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes” ("List of United States Immigration Laws.”) Twentieth century immigrants known as “undesirables” further grew to prevent the an unwanted change in society. The immigration act…

The Progressive Movement was a phase of extensive social activism and political reform all over the United states, from 1890s to 1920s. Progressivism in the United States was a widely based reform movement that reached its height in early 20th century which is generally believed to be middle class and reformist in nature. The modernization brought a vast change, such as the development of big corporations, pollution and a big fears of corruption in American government. It refers to the various…