HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Herbert Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt, Social Gospel
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What america wasn"t in the 19th century (1870: beginnings of change: what america was not in the 1870"s, demography, government and the economy. Economic growth: the corporation, new infrastructure and new technology, new ideas, new institutions, and new ways of doing business. People, industrialization, and the rise of big business: workers, immigrants, and cities, farmers, railroads, and politics. The foundation of the american century : the paradoxes of progress, economical development: regional changes, economical development: global ambitions, economical development: a new way of life. Moral reform, politics, policy, and progressive era: the varieties of progressivism, common traits and interest, moral reform- religion and social gospel, social reform- settlement houses and muckrakers, political reform- woman"s suffrage, municipal reform and the. Politics of inclusion and exclusion: economic reform- business and labor. The progressive presidents: teddy roosevelt and executive leadership, woodrow wilson and the new freedom . The legacies of progressivism: the federal government, people and politics, the modern economy.
