HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Jacob Riis, Jane Addams, Settlement Movement
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Distribution of wealth is increasingly centralized in the rich. labour unrest. Urbanization: loss of rural independent self in terms of employment. Immigration: concern that anglo-protestant america will be over run by immigrants. The closing of the frontier(jackson turner and the frontier thesis)frederick jackson turner"s frontier rontier was essential to america"s success and the development of its. Closing the frontier will end the first era of america. Response is a reforming impulse at home and a search for power abroad. The people"s party (populism): precursor to progressivism. Believed existing parties weren"t capable in mitigating these problems of the us. The 2 primary parties weren"t getting involved in economic problems because of their laissez-faire policy. Agrarian revolt: consumer prices are constantly increasing ship whereas farmers income is constantly decreasing. Unregulated railroad prices to freight, so that it costed more to ship within one"s state. Populists wanted government owned railroads, which made the party appealing.
