...Payton Gates HIS 135 01 Argument Draft March 27, 2016 The progressive era was a time in America where a variety of responses to the economic and social issues arose. However, there would not be any responses if no one were to show the problems to the rest of America. What caused these problems was the hasty transformation into industrialization and urbanization which was introduced in the 19th century . As a result of urbanization and rapid industrialization, childhood was something ignored, and child labor became a huge issue than both adults and children didn't understand or find a solution to. During the Progressive era, many effective actions were made to better children's poor lives and lifestyles, and the societal outlook on childhood changed from ignorance to realizing the issues of poverty and child labor, and the effects they had on everyone. A large issue that came from industrialization was that children of that time period up until near the end of the progressive era, were expected to basically become adults. Children from as young as eight were working and taking care of their families. In source two, the image is of mill workers in 1912, where children can be seen of nearly all ages, and none of them with shoes or decent clothing. This is a perfect example of how young workers were and how much they actually received from working. Since industrialization was one of the easiest ways to give an abundance of people jobs and wasn’t well regulated, the working...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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