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This 4 page paper examines governmental multicultural policies from the Progressive Era to the administrations of Nixon and Reagan. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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as bad as it was good. Great innovations in technology, such as the telegraph, railroad and aviation were making their debuts. However, racial policies and policies toward women and children
were at the bottom of the barrel in accomplishments. One would hope that issues, such as race and gender, would fair better in the ensuing years, and in truth, some
positive strides were made through the New Deal Era, The Great Society, but suffered, in more modern times. America, after years of struggling with world identity was finally at
the top of the heap, or was it? Race riots, forest fires, avarice, greed, oppression of women. Sound like something cut from todays headlines? Think again. It was all a
part of the cultural, socio-economic, and political climate ironically called, The Progressive Era. There was a price to pay for the industrial progress of this era. Unfortunately, those who
shouldered the largest burden of the cost were the disenfranchised farmers, who innocently thinking they would better their way of living, moved in droves to the cities. However, the internal
conditions of the cities, in the form of slums, were appalling to say the least. Many have speculated that if it were not for some social and economic reforms that
came at that time (called the Progressive Movement) that there may very well have been some sort of internal revolt by the working poor. This extended, largely, to the minorities
who struggled against many barriers that were in place. Race relations were not very progressive, either. Racially, the black man was faring little better than he had. The United States
Census records from this time show that there were over nine million African Americans living in America, primarily in the South, during this time, which represented nearly ten percent of
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