Muckraker

Context: During the industrial age, corporate giants like Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil had an iron grip on the economy. This allowed them to abuse their workers with low pay and poor working conditions, which led to numerous reforms and labor unions being formed, as well as workers being forced to live in sub-humane living conditions. Let’s delve deeper and analyze these reforms under the scope of the presidencies of Roosevelt, Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.) Theodore Roosevelt(All of these…

Jacob A. Riis’s informative book How The Other Half Lives overall summary is the exposing to readers the ignorance and disingenuous conditions endured in New York’s slums. He includes history about the tenements which belonged to the city’s wealthiest families and as industrialization increased it attracted many immigrants in the 19th century and the buildings were divided into overcrowded apartments for arrivals. Additionally, he mentions that cholera epidemics led people to desire reform.…

Running Head: The Progressive Era 2 The Progressive Era The Progressive Era Name Course Date 1.REFORM EFFORTS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND THE GROUPS INVOLVED IN THE REFORM The reform movement took prominence in order to correct the inequalities in American society. The movements were spurred by middle class constituency of American public since they had enough time, money and desire to change the lives of others. Some of the most notable groups of people involved in the struggle…

Section 1 Question # 2 Between the late 1890’s and late 1920’s, many African Americans struggled for survival and equal prosperity, especially after the effects of the reconstruction period. Many blacks had to live in the rural south, and make a life for themselves through lots of indentures to support both themselves and their families. This time period, was a huge disenfranchisement for blacks being that they had to deal with discriminatory behaviors, social, political and economic disparity,…

Webster defines the word immigrant, as a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence. In the novel, The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair the word immigrant takes on a whole new meaning. The immigrants in the novel are in search of the American dream, but after arriving in America that dream becomes a nightmare. Sinclair describes the journey of the immigrant working class in the meatpacking industry as “wage slavery”. “Sinclair writes that the immigrant population was "dependent…

Westward Expansion Via Manifest Destiny LG: How did Americans come to believe in Manifest Destiny? Americans came to believe in Manifest Destiny, by John O’ Sullivan stating, “God has given land to Americans”. Thus, making the country to believe that it was justifiable, that Americans should expand the country from coast to coast. Though the expansion lead to Sectionalism with the North and South. Due to America’s history, culture, and government, Americans thought that they were the best…

“They had dreamed of freedom; of a chance to look about them and learn something; to be decent and clean, to see their child grow up to be strong. And now it was all gone” (Sinclair 1906, 138). This is the bleak picture painted in Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle. A disturbing critique of turn-of-the-century industrialism with pervading themes of poverty, anti-corporation, and socialism. A commentary that exemplifies the Progressive era and the embodiments of freedom that came with it.…

As radical progressives fought to change conservative America, a group of Protestant ministers organized the Social Gospel movement to instill religious ethics into the business world. 18. Congregational minister Washington Gladden started a ministry for working-class neighborhoods and favored sanctions to improve workers’ rights. 19. Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist minister, proclaimed that Christians should endorse social reform to end poverty and labor abuse. 20. According to…

(1914) The Stoic (1947) The Genius (1915) An American Tragedy ( 1925) Jack London (1876-1916) The Call of the Wild (1903) The Sea-Wolf (1904) White Fang (1906) Martin Eden (1909), a semi-autobiographical novel Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) Muckraker writer The Jungle (1906) The Modern period 1914—1945 Modernism Background: - commercialization, industrialization (mass production): threatens individualism, sense of despair - wars: loss of belief and certainty - society is…

Powderly William Graham Sumner John P. Altgeld Samuel Gompers What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century? 2) How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy? 3) What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did various labor organizations attempt to respond to the new conditions? 4) The…