Category Archives: April 11 Assignment

On with the temperance movement!

From after the Civil war to the late nineteenth century, a temperance movement started to rise. People felt that conditions in cities could still be improved there weren’t as many saloons.  There were too many saloons in the cities.  The … Continue reading

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education reform…helpless?

With the recent departure of the New York City schools chancellor, Cathleen P. Black, it was apparent from the beginning that schools are in a huge need for reform. even the reception that greeted Ms. Black was not solemn but almost taken … Continue reading

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Want to know what’s really going on……get a newspaper

The way of getting information for many years prior to the revolution and after was local newspaper. Many politician used the newspaper as a way of transforming their message during a campaign. But after the invention of the stream press … Continue reading

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Reforms for the Working Class

The late 19th to the early 20th centuries saw a series of beneficial reforms by lawmakers for the working class. According to Chudacoff, Union rights to ‘organize, bargain, and strike’ were advocated by rising democratic leaders (p172) and they fought … Continue reading

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educational reform

In the late 19th century, where education system  had lacked the correct political reform. School were not organized, disorganized and overcrowded. Different laws were passed in the 1870’s and 1880’s, for example school attendance law. By the 1910, expectations for education were … Continue reading

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” Hey! Did you Subscribe to the Local Newspaper? “

The reformation of social and physical environment after the revolution, in Chudacoff’s publication, was worked towards from several perspectives. This was done in order to make the citizens more aware of conditions of their environment, which would then help them to … Continue reading

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Make Big Plans-Aim High & Hope

The motto of Daniel Burnham was “Make no little plans; make big plans…aim high and hope.” As a prominent architect during the early 1900s his mission along with the City Beautiful movements were to transform the cities from a disparaged … Continue reading

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Attraction

Within the reading of Chudacoff he discusses how the publishers of newspapers and magazines try to attract readers by “exposing the scandals and injustices of contemporary society” (Chudacoff 154). When I was reading about it I thought that the idea … Continue reading

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Beautify the City

While there was social reform during the late 1800s and the early 1900s, there was also the a group of reformers that set their works on beautifying the city, making it a better place for the citizens. For example, they … Continue reading

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religious and moral reform….

In the late 1800’s Protestant groups consisting of older men reformed their religious mission due to the social crisis and labor struggles that were occuring. There was a Social Gospel that portrayed the human aspects of Christianity. As said in … Continue reading

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