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In the nation's growing cities, factory output grew, small businesses flourished, and incomes rose. As the promise of jobs and higher wages attracted more and more people into the cities, the US began to shift to a nation of city dwellers. By 1900, 30 million people, or 30 percent of the total population, lived in cities. [202]
Adherents argued that all aspects of the economy, society and government were riddled with waste and inefficiency. Everything would be better if experts identified the problems and fixed them. The result was strong support for building research universities and schools of business and engineering, municipal research agencies, as well as reform ...
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...
The Mugwumps were Republicans who refused to support Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine in 1884. Political patronage, also known as the "spoils system", was the issue that angered many reform-minded Republicans, leading them to reject Blaine's candidacy. In the spoils system, the winning candidate would dole out government ...
Reportedly, Ward McAllister coined the phrase "the Four Hundred" by declaring that there were "only 400 people in fashionable New York Society." [ 9 ] According to him, this was the number of people in New York who really mattered; the people who felt at ease in the ballrooms of high society. [ 10 ]
1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti executed, seven years after they were convicted of murdering two men during an armed robbery in Massachusetts; 1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes first trans–Atlantic flight; 1927 – The Jazz Singer, the first motion picture with sound, is released; 1927 – U.S. citizenship granted to inhabitants of U.S. Virgin Islands
December 25, 1902 – A large hurricane struck the countries of Sweden and Denmark, leading to the deaths of 50 people. February 26-27, 1903 – A large extratropical cyclone known as Storm Ulysses swept through the British Isles and led to the deaths of 30 people. April 7, 1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.