HISTORY 40C Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Ellen Gates Starr, William Jennings Bryan, Child Labor Laws In The United States
8 Jun 2016
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Study guide: this provides you with guidance on what you should be learning from the textbook and the lectures. Left because of religious persecution looking for high wages to make money then go back. Became a badge of honor among journalists who were committed to exposing repugnant aspects of. Wanted to shock the public into recognizing the shameful state of political, economic, and social affairs and to prompt the people to take action. The 20th century rise of the muckrakers reflected two factors: economic: expanded newspaper and magazine circulation, intellectual: increased interest in realism , progressive movement emerged first and strongly among young protestant middle class people. William jennings bryan was a former populist leader became an ardent progressive. 1900-1920 was this period and it advocated measures to deal with the problems of industrial capitalism by using the power of government. Progressive was a loose label taken by many different movements of reform.
