History Marathon

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1. In the Progressive Era (roughly 1890–1920), multiple groups advocated for reforms
in various aspects of government, society, and the economy. Discuss here the
“muckrakers” and Taylor’s “scientific management”.
Taylor’s scientific management principles were aimed at ensuring that the work
proceeded in an efficient and productive way by means of deriving the best out of the
employees. However, the system of management was wrought with rampant
corruption and the muckrakers had been the journalists who had exposed it. The
muckrakers were of the view that the implementation of Taylor’s scientific
management had been the reason behind the corruption.
2. Explain with some specifics why Wilson became pro-war. Describe your own
feelings on that issue when you look back at it, and whether he was right to change.
The German submarines had drowned a luxury cruise Lusitania of the United
Kingdom in the year 1915 and had gained quite great deal of expertise in the field og
submarine warfare. Germany was also trying to incite Mexico against USA which
had driven her to enter the war in 1917.
3. After the end of World War I, overall economic growth exploded in the US in the
early 1920s, but then there was a severe economic breakdown with the Great
Depression of 1929-1939. Explain whether you think this helped to develop a more
unified national culture or more individuality, and identify a similar example today
with technology helping a trend or movement.
The Great Depression had created a unified culture in the United States of
America in unifying all the sections of the society against the Congress as their fiscal
policies were causing problems to the economy of the nation. In the contemporary

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period during the regime of President Trump the depreciation of the American
economy had led to the unification of the Americans against globalism and
immigration.
4. The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the most devastating economic
downturns that America has ever experienced. Determine whether you believe that
the federal responses to the Great Depression by President Franklin Roosevelt
encouraged real economic growth and confidence or whether the arguments by
critics of the day were accurate that it made the Depression last longer. Identify your
position and support it with at least two specific examples of New Deal responses.
The New Deal of President Roosevelt had been a measure which was aimed at
alleviating the United States of America from the period of Great Depression and
that is very much immanent in the programs that it consisted of. There were
provisions for the unemployed and the poor to provide them with economic
assistance and there were also federal laws passed which passed banking policies that
led to re-inflation in the nation.
5. Identify two isolationist arguments for staying out of World War II.
- The First World War had led to immense amount of loss both in economic and in
terms of the military.
- The Great Depression had rendered USA incapable of going into another war as
she was militarily as well as economically too weak to indulge in any war
preparation.
These were the reasons why the US had observed an isolationist policy with regard
to the joining of the second World War. The immense amount of damage that the