Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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... moved across the plains where Indians had followed herds of bison at midcentury , and steam - powered monsters threshed ripened grain in fields where the shaggy animals had grazed . Portland , Oregon , not yet fifty years old in 1890 ...
... moved across the plains where Indians had followed herds of bison at midcentury , and steam - powered monsters threshed ripened grain in fields where the shaggy animals had grazed . Portland , Oregon , not yet fifty years old in 1890 ...
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... moved to take advantage of war - induced unity of purpose . Many progressives , who saw the war crisis as one in which opportunity predominated over peril , believed that the United States had arrived at one of the great moments in her ...
... moved to take advantage of war - induced unity of purpose . Many progressives , who saw the war crisis as one in which opportunity predominated over peril , believed that the United States had arrived at one of the great moments in her ...
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... moved to the city . The census of 1910 , making it clear that the future direction of the nation was urban , justified the generaliza- tion ; the census of 1920 , showing more than half the population living in urban places , validated ...
... moved to the city . The census of 1910 , making it clear that the future direction of the nation was urban , justified the generaliza- tion ; the census of 1920 , showing more than half the population living in urban places , validated ...
Contents
Times and Tensions of a Developing Industrial Society | 3 |
MAPS | 21 |
American Society at the End of an Era | 34 |
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