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Working Conditions During The Gilded Age And The Progressive Era

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The course material for this class was an eye-opener for me. I learned the history taught in classrooms is different from the true history. I wasn’t aware that authors and publishers of history textbooks have altered the information to make it appealing to their target audience (Loewen Ch. 1). I have always believed that the information in history textbooks were be true. Target audiences would purchase history texts if they are satisfied with how the text portrays the nation as a whole. (Loewen Ch. 1) Authors had to be very cautious when writing history textbooks. They could not use certain words or concepts that would offend groups of people. They could not even use the word, “imagine” (Loewen Ch. 1). “Imagine” would suggest that magic exists …show more content…

Watching the South Park episode helped me to understand how unfair the big businesses were and currently are. (Something Wallmart this Way Comes) Large businesses frequently place the smaller companies out of trade. People involuntarily acquired low paying jobs in order to make provision their families. In addition, job opportunities were limited because of the introduction machines into the business world. (Zinn Ch. 11) Machines could do the job more proficiently than the people. Job conditions were unfair and unsafe: workers could get wounded easily and the factory environments remained unhealthy (Discussion 9). The possibility that a person could find human body parts or rodent feces in their food was high. It also became very hard to make money. The rich continuously became richer, while the poor remained poor (Loewen Ch. 7). The Progressives attempted to improve working conditions, but were not very fruitful (Loewen Ch. 7). The Progressives successful passed some laws, but major modifications were made. The numerous protests and riots held during the Progressive Era were violent; little was accomplished. (Zinn Ch. …show more content…

11). The writers need to satisfy their gatherings of people with the goal that they buy their course reading. The history course readings can likewise give understudies a feeling of patriotism. Numerous history reading material depict America as the legend. Numerous understudies are not keen on history and attempt to keep away from it (Loewen Ch. 12). "Feeling is the paste that makes history stick," and numerous understudies today don't have passionate binds to history (Loewen Ch. 12). The history taught in classrooms today is excessively protected, making it impossible to make understudies feel passionate about it. The history course readings forget essential and dubious point of interest that would make understudies more

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