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“Modern Times” is a silent movie written and directed by Charles Chaplin in 1936, through which he wanted to represent his observations and anxieties of the 19th century. It is dependent on pantomime, a style that does not use any sounds except for sound effects century and is understood universally. Though it was a depressing…

Many people can be seen as heroes or villains robber barons or captains of industry but the man who most stands out as a hero during the progressive era is Henry Ford. (“While working as an engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit, Henry Ford (1863-1947) built his first gasoline-powered horseless carriage, the Quadricycle,…

Throughout history, the role of the Federal Government has changed. The Federal Government has made changes to better America as a whole. Although at times it did not seem like things were getting better, but worse. These changes in their role were most present during the Reconstruction, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, WWI, The Great Depression…

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top three floors of a ten-story building in New York. On those three top floors was a sweatshop with about 500 workers, mostly made up of young Jewish and Italian immigrant women, making ladies’ blouses. As the fire roared, the girls tried to make their…

The decades between Reconstruction and World War I were a period of vast transformations in American society. In his book, The Search for Order, Robert Wiebe seeks to address these rapid changes in analyzing the changing values among individuals in the United States. Wiebe’s central thesis argues that the Progressive Era was a period in…