5 Powerful Sentances

In many cities, powerful politicians called bosses controlled work done locally and demanded payoffs from business.Chapter 19 section 1.

 The way that people would cheat people out of there money was just morally wrong. But that's why history was written by the winners. People like William "Boss" Tweed knew how to appeal to there audience. He knew that there were a lot more poor people than rich and he needed there votes on his side. So by giving them what they wanted he was able to get what he wanted. This is why nothing really ever changed for so long, because the rich would always have something over the poor.

The Progressives were a diverse group of reformers united by a belief in the public interest, or the good of all people. Chapter 19 section 1

The progressives wanted everyone to unite and come together to work toward the same goal. They want the public interest to come first, for it to come before anything. My take on  the progressive views are pretty positive. I mean they were all outcasts. The poor, immigrants, women and African Americans were all outcasts but there were so many more of them. And they finally realized how many more of them there were, and they realized that they could actually work together because they all wanted the same thing. In this sentence I really like the words diverse, united and all. I think these words pretty much sum up what progressives were all about.

The press played an important role in exposing corruption and other problems. Chapter 19 section 1

The muckrakers, or crusading journalists, were the press. They really knew how to find a surprising amount of information on businesses. No one could really be sure where or how they got there information, or how accurate it was but it sure shocked a lot of people. Including president Theodore Roosevelt. Because of what Roosevelt read in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, meat packaging plants were inspected. Also muckrakers said things against food and drug companies, so Congress in response passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, which said that it was required to have a list of all the ingredients on food and medicines. So its true that they played an important role. Because of all the exposing they did to corruption, many things were changed for the better.

Often, jobless whites took out their anger on blacks. Chapter 19 section 4

This state meant is so ridiculous. This is something that whites would do for "fun."They were only violent to blacks to make themselves feel better. Back then segregation was truly sickening. I even read an article in the Chicago Tribune from a little over a week ago talking about racial segregation that's still happening now. An African American family of three moved to Willowbrook, a dominantly white area. For several years they were receiving threats, hate mail and vandalism on their property. Even when they tole the police about this they did nothing. So its crazy that even in this day and age segregation is still happening after everything history has told us about it. Of course its not as violent as it used to be where people were murdered by lynching or other ways. But all the same its really remarkable.

Roosevelt was the first president to side with the strikers. Chapter 19 section 2

So far all the presidents before Roosevelt did basically the same thing, favor big businesses. Roosevelt was the first one that really tried to limit businesses and make everything equal. This was a really good thing for those who believed in the progressive views. Not only was the the first president to side with the strikers but he was the first person to actually listen to them at all. This was a positive step into making a social change.