Upton Sinclair's Reforms In The 1900s

The reasons the U.S called neutrality during the 1920s and 1930s is because they no longer wanted to be involved with wars, for example World War 1, and they had enough going on the inner parts of the U.S, such as women gaining the right to vote. As things went on the United States realized that tings weren’t staying as neutral as they planned, for instance African Americans were gaining in dependence. Ideas about neutrality changed change during the period from the end of World War I to the passage of the Lend-Lease Act in ways like, for instance when we sent help to China or Britain, so ideas were becoming less neutral and more team related in a way. In my opinion, the point at which U.S actions were no longer neutral is when the United

Consensus history is a nationalistic and homogenized narrative composed by white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, New Englander elites that aimed to minimize some of the errors of our nation’s past (p.20). Books composed in this manner frequently exaggerated, omitted, or falsified information to make the history of America look less shameful and more valiant than it really was. Some of those omitted were women, Native Americans, and African Americans because they did not fit this positive narrative. Two of the major authors of consensus history were George Bancroft and Francis Parkman.

Progressives were a group of well educated people in the late 1800s and early 1900s that were from a city that tried to help solve social and political problems. They all debated on how to fix problems until they came to a decision. They thought it was important to launch a reform because of the problems in civil rights,conservation,healthcare and medicine,and many more problems.

Literature is where one could go to explore the highest and lowest points of human society, find the absolute truth, and support it using personal experiences and knowledge. Such is the case with writer Upton Sinclair, who grew up experiencing both sides of wealth and class divisions. By reflecting on his experiences with class division, Upton Sinclair’s exposé not only sheds light on the fight for workers rights but also incorporates a Socialist philosophy. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 20, 1878. From birth Sinclair was exposed to dichotomies that would have an effect on his young mind and his thinking in later life (“Upton”).

In the United States there were countless reform movements that took place to help shape our very own United States. One of the most influential times of reform would have been considered the Progressive Era. Progressivism is put forth by many different historians, considered to be a movement created by various groups of people, in effort to boost their everyday lives by being more efficient and discard corruption. Historians like George Mowery “Progressivism:Middle Class Disillusionment” and Robert H. Wiebe “Progressivism Arrives” introduce us to these reformers as wealthier and higher class citizens in America. While Joseph Huthmacher brings up that the urban lower class are the people who stood up and provided the force for the reform.

Henry George was a democratic social reformer who was born on September 2nd 1839 in Philadelphia. George is respected with the idea of a “single tax” on land. The government in this case would aid all of its projects with the gatherings from only the one tax. The single tax would only apply to land that has not been modified, landscaped, or without buildings and so forth. In 1879, George published Progress and Poverty which became his breakthrough in popularity and also grew a political movement in the United States based on his work.

In 1814 the congress of Vienna set the stage for the age of ideology. The age of ideology provided 3 emerging ideologies of liberalism, nationalism, and socialism. Although liberalism, nationalism, and socialism. Although nationalism, socialism, and liberalism have the same common goal to create a unified Europe, they contradict each other on account of their beliefs. Nationalism made itself prominent during the 19th century while the continent attempted to maintain peace.

The mid-19th Century saw an evolution in reform and religious sentiment. Up to the 1830s, most reform revolved around Protestant evangelism and traditional religious and social thought. However, the 1840s and 1850s saw the creation of new, more ambitiously reforming movements. One of these movements was spiritualism. Generally, it was the belief that an individual could talk to spirits and seek counsel from them.

During the preindustrial era, one of the noteworthy transformations seen in the health care field was the introduction of almshouses and pest-houses. Almshouses were established to take care of the poor and destitute people that had fallen ill. The notion would later be transformed into the first hospitals and nursing homes. Established in 1660 in Boston, the first almshouse acted in manners similar to welfare. Furthermore, they established a place to care for the lower class citizens including the poor, elderly, mentally insane, ill, disabled, and orphaned.

There are many movements associated with Frederick Douglass’ speech, including the abolitionist movement. Abolitionist ideas became prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 1830s until 1870. The goal of the abolitionist movement was immediate emancipation of all slaves and ending racial discrimination and segregation. Abolitionists differed from moderate anti-slavery advocates; they wanted to abolish slavery completely not minimally. An obstacle of this movement was the westward expansion that took place in the North after 1840, eventually leading to Civil War.

The progressives of the late 1800s and early 1900s may not have been a society or a union, but they were united under a common cause. That common cause was the need for change, and not just small changes; but the need for changes at the local, state, and national level. As they are now, things were far from perfect during the Progressive Era, and progressives sought to improve social welfare, worker rights, conservation of the country’s resources, and more. Of all of the issues with the United States’ social welfare in the early 1900s, the circumstances of child labor were arguably the worst.

During the late 1800’s a seemingly impossible uphill battle for equality and rights gained a new ally in the Progressive Movement, whose main goal was to enact reform in a practical, plausible way. Before this Movement social conditions were worsening across the United States and inequality in politics ran rampant, to spread the news of this new forms of media and campaigning arose, and after the Progressive Movement ran its course it left a drastic imprint on the history of American reform. This era is famous for its changes and philosophies that governed America and its people such as the argument between Conservationists and Preservationists or the issue of tariffs that had persisted since the birth of the United States, but what the Progressive