Response To The Progressive Era

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I just would like to thank you for this money that I had to inherit from you and for giving me the decision to donate the money. Right now the United States is suffering. Women are fighting for voting rights, workers are being paid unfair, rich people get more advantages, and children working and being paid unfair. The United States is going through what they call the Progressive Era. The Progressive Era is when the political and social reform, and make it into a better society.The Federal government is trying to eliminate unethical and unfair business practices, reduce corruption, and take back the negative social effects of industrialization. Now with your money that I inherit from you, I will be donating it and distributing it evenly, like how you ask me to, to following three groups: saving trees, food safety, and child labor. …show more content…
“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroy- chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their barks and hides… it took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods.” The American Forest by John Muir from the Atlantic Monthly, August, 1897. This shows the carless act of men chopping down trees without knowing that we need them more in the future. Like I said in the beginning trees are really important because they are the main source of living on earth. Trees produce take in carbon and releases oxygen which what we need to breathe in and survive. Trees also produce nutritious