What was the Literature and Scientific Advances of the Progressive Era like?

Answer 1

Among the most notable writers in the Progressive Era were the crusading journalists, known as muckrakers. These journalists revealed to middle class readers the evils of economic privilege, political corruption, and social injustice. Their articles appeared in McClure’s Magazine and other reform periodicals. Some muckrakers focused on corporate abuses. Ida Tarbell, for instance, exposed the activities of the Standard Oil Company. In The Shame of the Cities (1904), Lincoln Steffens dissected corruption in city government. In Following the Color Line (1908), Ray Stannard Baker criticized race relations. Other muckrakers assailed the Senate, railroad practices, insurance companies, and fraud in patent medicine.

Novelists, too, revealed corporate injustices. Theodore Dreiser drew harsh portraits of a type of ruthless businessman in The Financier (1912) and The Titan (1914). In The Jungle (1906) Socialist Upton Sinclair repelled readers with descriptions of Chicago’s meatpacking plants, and his work led to support for remedial legislation. Leading intellectuals also shaped the progressive mentality. In The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Thorstein Veblen attacked the “conspicuous consumption” of the wealthy. Educator John Dewey emphasized a child-centered philosophy of pedagogy, known as progressive education, which affected schoolrooms for three generations.

In science this was the era of cultural disputes over Darwin and evolution in America which would culminate in the Scopes Trial. In the physical sciences the United States began to come into its own with the building of giant astronomical observatories and the awarding of the Nobel Prize in physics to Albert Michelson. Much scientific research however was conducted in the laboratories of giant industrial corporations such as Bell, DuPont, Westinghouse and General Electric.

Answer 2

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What was the Literature and Scientific Advances of the Progressive Era like?

Answer 3

I think the CO2 debate stalled years ago. Most people could understand the CO2 warming process. Most understand that the sun is responsible for the changing climate conditions in the past because of the natural interactions of solar radiation and greenhouse gases. This process isn't that hard to understand. The hard bit for most is the understanding of the forcing process and the chemical reaction that take place due to heat and pressure created by the natural forcing process. Now the thing is only when we have a understanding how these natural processes work that we can replicate and control them. The biggest advancement in technology would have to be the microscope and to see these natural processes taking place in the lab. As were moved forward in time it has been the advancement in being able to see things smaller and smaller. I read somewhere that there is no regulations on Nano technology and it is were weather modification has progressed from. If you don't see weather modification as a reality then your not looking close enough. So don't be a mushroom get out of the dark ages and stop eating BS Come out of the dark and become enlightened by seeking the truth to what we are seeing. Propaganda is keeping you in the dark.