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- A TIMELINE OF 8 PAGES
- 6 COMMENTARIES.
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“They were the early scientists and technologists.
Came to indulge home and hearth children of the post-Civil War era. They came
as labor anarchists, campus rioters, and ambitious first graduates of black and
women’s colleges. Their young adults pursued rural populism, settlement house
work, missionary crusades, muckraking journalism and women’s suffrage.”[1]
COMMENTARIES INCLUDE
1865 - The Guilded Age –
The era was
called “The Gilded Age” , also called the Age of “Progress”, and saw the
rise of corporate America and a form of capitalism which created immense wealth
for a few individuals.. Some were called “Robber Barons” due to the
formation of massive corporate Trusts.
Social Darwinism - The term Darwinism was coined by Thomas
Henry Huxley in his March 1861 review of On the Origin of
Species,[6] and
by the 1870s it was used to describe a range of concepts of evolution or
development, without any specific commitment to Charles Darwin's theory of
natural selection.[7] Social
Darwinism became a social practice. In practice, in the U.S., anything
which did not benefit the rich and powerful (the “fittest” as in “survival of
the fittest”) was considered as a threat to “progress”.
1865 – 1960s - Jim Crow
Laws – The laws sprouted up in the late 19th century
after Reconstruction and lasted until the 1960s.[1] They
mandated de jure segregation in
all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal"
status for Americans of African descent. In reality, this led to treatment that
was usually inferior to that provided for Americans of European descent,
systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages.[2][2]
1868 - The Grange And “Granger Movement” – “The Grange was originally a secret
order founded in 1867 to advance the social needs and combat the economic
backwardness of farm life. It became the “Granger Movement., The Granger
Movement was politically active and would be called today a Non-Governmental
Organization (NGO) which supported efforts by politicians to regulate rates
charged by the railroads and grain warehouses. It claimed credit for the ideas
of the Cooperative Extension Service, Rural
Free Delivery, and the Farm Credit System.”
[3]
1860 – 1890 - From Temperance Movement To Mass Movement - The Temperance Movement was a
significant mass movement at this time and encouraged a general abstinence from
the consumption of alcohol. Various associated organizations were founded with
this purpose: The Salvation Army (1864), temperance halls and coffee fountains
offered alternatives to saloons, a National Prohibition Party was founded,
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) 1873. This led toward Protestant
evangelization culminating in 1893 with the Anti-Saloon League , a religious
lobbying organization.
1870s - Commercial Food Processing - “The next 30 years, until 1900, saw perhaps the worst
malnutrition England had ever known. Deficiency diseases became widespread in
the country as well. It took decades to understand the connection to the
processing of food.”
