This political cartoon shows the world being attacked by The Liquor Octopus. During the Progressive Era, the American people started the prohibition. They banned alcohol because they believed in that alcohol causes poverty, crime, disease, waste, debauchery. Debauchery means: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance.
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/images/asl/cartoctopus.gifWeb. Dec. 15, 2013.
Before the stock market crashed and the Great Depression started, it was the time of the Progressive Era. The Progressive Era was full of optimism and hope. People were trying to stop trusts and getting to vote for the senate. People were hoping to change America for the better and were full of paternalism. They wanted to integrate native americans and make them white. They hoped to make America, a place people wanted to be.
But there was a dark side to the Progressive Era; there was the story of Ota Benga. He was a young man sent from Africa and put into a zoo because they couldn't make him become white; like them. When he was 35 years old, he killed himself. He had never really fit in with the American society.
But there was a dark side to the Progressive Era; there was the story of Ota Benga. He was a young man sent from Africa and put into a zoo because they couldn't make him become white; like them. When he was 35 years old, he killed himself. He had never really fit in with the American society.