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zaronson · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 17

After reading the text, i have come to the conclusion that a lot of people did not want anything to do with immigrants. They believed them to be destructive to the over all well being and growth of the nation. President Roosevelt said in 1915, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...The one absolutely certain way of bringing the nation to ruin, of preventing possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities"

hkwon · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 24

From my resources, ‘Progressive Reform and the Trusts,’ politicians are simply divided into two groups by different ideas of the structure of market following with progressive era. The one called trust people believe that a one big corporation, monopoly is good to the nation. In the reading 5 , Theodore Roosevelt says, ‘ the effort to restore competition as it was sixty years ago, and to trust for justice solely to this proposed restoration of competition, is just as foolish as if we should go back to the flintlocks of Washington’s continentals as a substitute for modern weapons of precision.’ The other called anti-trust people believe that monopoly is bad to society because it prevents each company from competition which had been an establishment of market. In the reading 2, Louis Brandeis says, ‘a corporation may well be too large to be the most efficient instrument of production and distribution.’

shawks · Joined: 12 May 2010 Posts: 12

I think that the technological events caused the cities to become more urbanized. The skyscraper was invented so there would be more workers in a smaller space to produce more of one products. This changed the economy completely and made agriculture not as crucial for survival. This was bad though because the cities started getting dirtier and the poor people had to live in a very toxic environment.

sarahislahf · Joined: 11 May 2010 Posts: 21

(late, because this wouldn't post last night)

I did Immigration, and I'm going to echo what Eli said about tensions between new immigrants and locals, and that immigrants became scapegoats to blame for the debauchery and "moral degradation" of the time.

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