THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE PROGRESSIVES
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100
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200
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75
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50
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Detailed explanation-1: -The act promised WWI veterans a bonus based on length of service between April 5, 1917 and July 1, 1919; $1 per day stateside and $1.25 per day overseas, with the payout capped at $500 for stateside veterans and $625* for overseas veterans.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 2 months during which 10, 000 veterans and their families set up a makeshift camp at the foot of the Capitol ended in one of history’s biggest clashes between American citizens and government forces.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Bonus Army was a group of 43, 000 demonstrators – 17, 000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
Detailed explanation-4: -On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent.