The Progressive Era In Depth

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Sigmund Freud was a psychology researcher who has had the largest impact on the field from his theories of Id, ego, superego, and the Oedipus complex. Freud committed suicide in 1938.

Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level at more than 29 thousand feet tall. Split by the border of China and Nepal, nearly 7,000 summits have been recorded with more than 300 deaths.

Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 and repeatedly sold until housewife Sophia Auld taught him the alphabet which led to his learning to read and write. After escaping to freedom, Douglass was an activist for the abolitionist movement and more.

The Scopes Monkey Trial was a public case in Dayton, Tennessee, regarding the teaching of evolution in schools defying the Christian fundamentalist belief in creationism. While evolutionists lost the legal case, Christian fundamentalists lost in the court of public opinion.

The Middle Passage was a period from the 16th century until 1865, when 12.5 million Africans were forced into unbearable living conditions aboard slave ships destined for the Caribbean and the Americas.

The Empire State Building was built in the midst of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s. It was the world’s tallest skyscraper of its time, measuring 1,250 feet.

Mount Rushmore was a project conceived by Doane Robinson to attract tourism to South Dakota. Designed and sculpted by Gutzon Borglum, the monument was completed in 1941.