The Progressive Era In Depth

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Bacon’s Rebellion was the result of rising tensions between the Virginia Governor and Nathaniel Bacon, the leader of a group of extremists who burned down the Jamestown colony.

William Randolph Hearst inherited the San Francisco Examiner newspaper from his father, ultimately growing his media empire to a national powerhouse through sensationalism and yellow journalism.

After losing Fort Detroit and the Great Lakes Region to an alliance of British forces and Native American tribes, future president William Henry Harrison led a ruthless offensive against half-starved soldiers and leading to the death of Tecumseh.

George Wallace was elected to the Alabama governorship four times on a platform of segregation before ultimately renouncing his segregationist ideology and seeking reconciliation with civil rights leaders.

The first cross-country trip by car was completed in less than 65 days by Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, bicycle mechanic Sewall Crocker and a bulldog named Bud, winning a fifty-dollar bet that inspired the trip.

The Sign Wars were a series of messages between competing businesses that brought much-needed humor during a time of nationwide stress as news of the pandemic, climate change and more persisted.

On March 28th, 1979, the pressure valve in the Unit Two reactor at Three Mile Island malfunctioned, beginning the meltdown process that was successfully remediated but not without panic and public perception turning against Nuclear’s promise of clean energy.