Progressive Era to New Era

1900-1929: Library of Congress

The early 20th century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. The progressives, as they called themselves, worked to make American society a better and safer place in which to live. They tried to make big business more responsible through regulations of various kinds. They worked to clean up corrupt city governments, to improve working conditions in factories, and to better living conditions for those who lived in slum areas, a large number of whom were recent immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Many progressives

A common myth is that Henry Ford invented the automobile. This is not true. While he may not have invented the automobile, he did offer a new way of manufacturing a large number of vehicles. This method of production was the moving assembly line.
The most common feature of this assembly line was the conveyer belt. The belts were in use within other industries, including slaughterhouses. Moving the product to the worker seemed like a better use of time and resources. The Ford Motor Company team decided to try to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process.

After

Mark Twain’s article, “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”, was a scathing indictment of Colonialism. Although he did not mention Rev. William Scott Ament by name in the article, repercussions from it indicted him for atrocities committed in the name of Christianity and generated much of the controversy the article. From 13 September 1900, Ament, and an assistant, Reverend Elwood Gardner Tewksbury accompanied by the U.S. 6th Cavalry, searched the areas adjacent to Beijing for Boxers, collecting indemnities for Christians who had been killed by the Boxers, and ordered the burning of some homes