... economically. Their goal was to achieve social rights and reforms, although not many in the movement had any of these issues to face. Hofstadter then clearly lays out what he believes is the real reason behind this ... each. The second essay, by Gerald Woods, takes the progressive movement to a more specific time and place. A tale of two cities in California during early twentieth century. The Californian progressive was usually born in the Midwest or California, a Republican, ... fighting, even dancing. Their reason for this was the destruction from within a society as the downfall of A...

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... all out in describing the atmosphere in which this story was to take place. In the first chapter Norris paints a picture of a town setting. He describes Polk Street as "one of those cross streets peculiar to Western cities, situated in the heart of the residence quarter, but occupied by small trades people who lived in the rooms above their shops. There were corner drug ... fortune concentrating on a gold plate, for which Zerkow drools over the mere thought of. It is in this scene that the reader also learns of the obsession with gold that overtakes these two. In the description of thei...

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