HIST 2055 Chapter : Progressive Era
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Tuesday"s notes: farmers conclusion, free coinage of silver, the government should coin silver dollars, organized farmers, by 1896, we are gearing up for a showdown, the elections of 1896, three political parties, democrats, republicans, and populists. Natural allies of the populists would be the democrats. That is divided votes by two social classes, agricultural and industrial: mckinley wins the election. Republicans also become the majority party in congress. This election dissipates the organized farmers and the. It is from europe, specifically germany, that we get our modern university: undergraduate and graduate schools not based on morality of character but: Undergraduates: transition of culture to others, creation of culture by students. Graduate students: advanced students, modernization of the college curriculum. Smaller, seminar style classes: political science, business administration, social darwinism, charles darwin, theory of evolution. Determines what species survive and which ones don"t in nature. Survival of the fittest : applied to a social setting.
