The Progressive Era In Depth

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The Brooklyn Bridge was built between 1870 and 1883 at a cost of $15.5 million or roughly half a billion in today’s currency. It would cost the lives of 27 men and severely injure many more, paralyzing the chief project engineer and bridge designer’s son.

Robert E. Lee was a West Point-educated soldier who served in the Mexican-American War before becoming commander-in-chief of confederate rebel forces in the Civil War.

Socrates was born and raised in the golden age of Athens, studying the writings of contemporary Greek philosophers. Leaving no written records himself, thankfully his students included Plato and historian Xenophon, who wrote down the Socratic Technique and more lessons from Socrates.

The Seven Wonders of the ancient world are structures with evidence or documentation of early civilization’s advanced and bewildering abilities for construction, during a technologically primitive time period.

Ulysses S. Grant led a six-week and massive three-pronged Union Army offensive now known as the Overland Campaign, intended to crush Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army, while capturing the rebel capital at Richmond before sweeping farther south toward Atlanta.

Leopold and Loeb were intelligent sons of wealthy families in Chicago but decided to use their intellligence to commit a self-described “perfect crime.” Far from perfect, the murder of Bobby Franks was quickly solved, leading to confessions by Leopold and Loeb.

The Second Middle Passage was the exchange of slaves from the upper south to the lower south as cotton overshadowed tobacco production. Many of the slaves sold during this period would be separated from their families.