The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

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the Midwest, including even Iowa, Minnesota, and North Dakota; and the Pacific Coast states of Oregon and California. The sharp ...

552 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 1872 Ulysses Grant is reelected president 1873 Congress su ...

Chapter Review 553 Review Questions 1.The introduction to this chapter suggests that Americans from 1877 to 1896 were as enthral ...

Are college students apathetic? 554 Some think so. In 2007 New York Timescolumnist Thomas Friedman proposed that they be known a ...

The Age of ReformThe Age of Reform 21 CONTENTS ■Like garbage being tossed from a window, this family, evicted from their apartme ...

556 Chapter 21 The Age of Reform Orchard Street, a tenement in lower Manhattan in New York City. The unpaved street, ankle-deep ...

The Muckrakers 557 contributions. The working and living conditions of slum dwellers remained abominable, and the child labor pr ...

558 Chapter 21 The Age of Reform These articles provoked much comment. When the editor, S. S. McClure, decided to include in the ...

“Radical” Progressives: The Wave of the Future 559 “Radical” Progressives: The Wave of the Future Some people espoused more radi ...

560 Chapter 21 The Age of Reform This issue of The Masses, a leading Socialist magazine, featured a cover by Ashcan artist John ...

Political Reform: The States 561 the Chicago school, denounced the local plutocrats but sang the praises of the city they had ma ...

562 Goldman’s lectures, but there was no direct connection between the two, and the charges against her were dropped. In 1906 Go ...

State Social Legislation 563 During the first decade of the new century, Robert M. La Follette, one of the most remarkable fig- ...

564 Chapter 21 The Age of Reform As stricter and more far-reaching laws were enacted, many judges, fearing a trend toward social ...

employer had been negligent. Gradually the states adopted accident insurance plans, and some began to grant pensions to widows w ...

566 Chapter 21 The Age of Reform ARKANSAS KANSAS NEBRASKA MISSOURI IOWA WISCONSIN MINNESOTA TEXAS SOUTH DAKOTA NORTH DAKOTA NEW ...

Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House 567 improve the character of the electorate. Society would benefit because politic ...

568 Chapter 21 The Age of Reform Roosevelt had been a sickly child, plagued by asthma and poor eyesight, and he seems to have sp ...

argument—that the progressives challenged the “monied interests.” By the 1930s, when the nation was mired in depression, many bl ...