The New Era

Gods” covers is known as a time when religion was at its plateau in the eyes of scholars who canvassed the era. Cohen’s biggest argument is…

President Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson were in office during the progressive era. The progressive era brought new ideas about the economy and politics. These new ideas forced the public to think about the government and business differently. This new way of thinking challenged traditional ideas and sometimes broke the traditional way thinking. This in turn led America in a new but promising direction. These three Presidents had the desire to change social and political policies combined with…

intellectual authors shared their stories and views on history during the progressive era. Robert Wiebe, Richard White, Michael McGerr, and Robert Zieger were the authors who shared their knowledge with those interested in learning more about what transformed our country from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. First, there is a need to understand what progressivism means. All four authors touch on the era in their books, but Michael McGerr’s story shared a simpler…

Victorian era. Lewis Carroll was born January 27, 1832 in Cheshire, England to Charles Dodgson and Frances Jane Ludwidge. His father was a clergyman…

which is a huge positive. Sinclair’s exposé on the atrocity that was the meat-packing industry assisted in revolutionizing the industry, improving the health of American citizens, and, in a way, helped workers get paid fairly. During the Progressive Era, workers just weren’t paid enough to care about quality assurance in their employers product, how could they? They were barely getting by even when working their lives away, so why would they take the time to further assist the people putting…

judgmental, constantly aimed towards perfection, can make any well behaved person feel uncomfortable, trapped, and terrified of free expression. This was precisely the type of society that was created by the English government during the Victorian Era. The representative government of this ‘perfect society’, as well as the negative impacts…

The Victorian era promoted education for women, but only to a certain extent, to standards set by upper class males. A woman should have individuality, wit, and be able to think critically (Caitlin L,). The idea of a clever woman was appreciated in theory, but their ideas and thoughts were passed and not always listened to. They place women “akin to precocious children,” (Watts, 551). Society demonstrates an appreciation for a great mind, but does not respect ideas or thoughts presented by women…

Prior to the Progressive Era, industrialization, urbanization, and immigration had quickly changed the nation in dramatic ways, to such an extremity that Progressives believed the only way to fix problems was through government involvement. The political progressive reforms beginning in 1890 and further were mostly successful, even though some yielded muddled results. As a whole, many beneficial improvements were able to rise out of the Progressive Era that aided in ameliorating and shaping the…

characters of Miss Tesman and Hedda Gabler are portrayed as foils. Miss Tesman is the embodiment of an ideal woman of the middle class during the Victorian era. On the other hand, Hedda expresses the ideals of a woman of the Victorian upper class. Ibsen’s use of these characters as foils expresses the social divide that classism of the Victorian era brought forth. Though Miss Tesman is polite and amicable, Hedda’s condescending diction reveals that she looks down on Miss Tesman; she treats her…

Achievements in the technology of the gilded Age gave the opportunity to scientists throughout the Progressive Era to make new discoveries. For example, in 1878 physicist Albert A. Michelson first measured the speed of light; this later played an important role in Albert Einstein’s 1905 development of the “The Special Theory of Relativity”. In 1907, Albert Michelson became…