The early twentieth century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. The Progressive era was a time of immense change in America and American society. The progressives, as they called themselves, struggled to improve American society by working toward equality. Progressives shared optimism about American citizens’ ability to improve social conditions, by actively intervening, both politically and morally, and ensure social justice. During an age of mass industrialization and urbanization, obtaining social justice was of vital importance because with social justice established, social control would naturally be achieved due to the satisfaction of citizens being treated equally.
The ratification of the Constitution marked the beginning of the Early National Period. The ENP was filled with change. Everything from transportation to cooking became more efficient and changed the way ordinary Americans lived. The advancements in technology had a profound impact on American culture. Jack Larkin’s book, The Reshaping of Everyday Life, and the essays in A Shared Experience support Fischer’s thesis that “deep change” was happening in the ENP.
When our country was founded, we continued to have decisive relationships with other world powers and nations to carry out the role of global manager. With the purpose of staying a flourishing country, we needed to understand the total social development of the United States accordingly from the transition of an individualistic, patriarchal, white supremacist society to a more bureaucratic organization it is today. We are much more further advanced than the previous times, but we still remain very different. After the ending of WWII, National Security meant much more than simply defending the nation's territory against invasion, it came to be identified with the creation and preservation of a free-trading capitalist world order. U.S. policymakers became determined to awaken the global capitalist economy by depending on a world system of free
To begin, there were such huge numbers of various thoughts that came into play making the Constitution of the United States. The Founding Fathers brought a significant number of various types of government for our new nation becoming free from Britain. They needed to improve an administration than what Britain was. However, they needed a legislature that would work for a considerable length of time after as well. So a chosen few were helped make this conceivable, the Founding Fathers.
In cultural assimilation occurs the bigger cultures, principal culture in a country, or the culture with more population absorb the smaller cultures. A good example of this happened many years ago when Europeans came to United States for a better life and jobs. The new immigrants had their own culture, but they had to adapt to American culture. This made Europeans were forgetting their traditions, and consequently they adopt the American culture. In contrast, multiculturalism is known to be well defined every religion or culture, for example in Dallas, TX.
Progressivism was a global movement in reshaping the New South consisting of the men and women of the rapidly growing middle class. Progressives aimed toward bettering the society by getting the government involved and finding a common middle ground. This group of reformers believed that good citizens could solve almost any problem and improve their communities because progressives were convinced of people’s ability to change.1 Progressives meant well, but all too often, they were apathetically insensitive to the feelings of those whose lives they aimed to improve. Although the native-born white Americans ran the progressive movement, their actions affected many different groups of people throughout America including women, African Americans, and the working class. Southern progressives differed from that of northern progressives in some aspects.
What’s unique about the American society is that after the many years immigrants have assimilated, they’ve been able to mold themselves into the American identity but at the same time preserve their foreign culture. As Douglas Rivelin has said, “Immigrants come and change America and are changed by America”. From the very start of our nation, immigrants have flooded in from different countries in search for a better life in America, taking bits and pieces of their home country with them. This then results in a heterogeneous society of different cultures becoming more homogenous by adapting to
The United States is pluralistic society in which many cultures exist together and have become a part of larger American identity. America can no longer be considered a country of uniform faces that the writers of the Constitution had sought it out to be. Young America became a nation that contained many people of different ethnicities who gave up their cultural identity to become part of the American culture. After that it turned into a “melting pot” of all sorts of cultures and races and thus America became a multi-cultural nation. In more recent times, immigrants that arrived in America, did not “shed” their culture or heritage rather they incorporated it into the area where they live through the construction of religious institutions, restaurants and neighborhoods.
Long before the term “American immigrant” was inducted into the English vocabulary, the forefathers of America built this country on the idea of freedom from the restrictions of their countries of origin. They built this country on the idea that any one individual could obtain any goal set before them. This is a nation built by immigrants, for immigrants, long before legality came into play. While initial immigration came with relatively low numbers, the possibilities and freedoms offered with immigration into the U.S. changed those numbers quickly. The rapid growth began in the 1820s.
David Parker Professor Sweeney ENG 231.0003 Mar. 2014 Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Man Thinking By the early 1800’s, a new sense of literary freedom was present in America. The colonial writers of the past were heavily influenced by their European roots, and the limits of technology had kept printed literature from great diversification. By the late 1700’s however, American population was exploding, the printed word had become much more accessible, and the newfound freedom from Britain created an environment perfect for the spread of new ideas. The search for a national identity and a spirit of nonconformity had entered the hearts of many Americans, such as writers David Hume, Henry David Thoreau, George Putnam, and Frederick Henry Hedge.