Was Progressivism an inspirational movement to further the nation’s democratic ideals or was it an attempt at social control by self-important, moralist busybodies? To what extent (how much) was Progressivism an expression of American’s old utopian tenden
Humanities
Each Major Problems in American History Chapter Questions NEED to have the following:
- EACH question posed below needs to be answered in a lengthy paragraph of At Least 10-15 college-level quality, analytical sentences with 3 citation/quote from Cobbs example: (Cobbs, 94)
- Please SUBDIVIDE each answer/paragraph by labeling each chapter’s questions appropriately (a,b,c,d, etc…)
- In-text citations or Footnotes/Endnotes will suffice
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Introduction & Cobbs’ Chapters 5 & 6
Read Introduction: How to Read Primary and Secondary Sources
Read the following from Chapter 5 (The Progressive Movement) and Answer the questions:
- Documents:
- Utopian Edward Bellamy Scorns the Callousness of the Rich, 1888
- Black Educator Booker T Washington Advocates Compromise and Self-Reliance, 1901
- NAACP Founder W.E.B. Dubois Denounces Compromise on Negro Education and Civil Rights, 1903
- Essays:
- Michael McGerr—“Class, Gender and Race at Home: The American Birthplace of Progressivism.”
- Daniel T Rodgers—“American Progressivism in the Wider Atlantic World”
- Questions:
- Was Progressivism an inspirational movement to further the nation’s democratic ideals or was it an attempt at social control by self-important, moralist busybodies?
- To what extent (how much) was Progressivism an expression of American’s old utopian tendencies, and to what extent was it a reaction common to all industrializing nations?
Read the following from Chapter 6 (WWI and the League of Nations) and Answer the questions:
- Documents:
- President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War, 1917
- Senator Robert La Follette Passionately Dissents, 1917
- Wilson Proposes a New World Order in the “Fourteen Points,” 1918
- An Ambulance Surgeon Describes What it was like “Over There,” 1918
- Essays:
- Jan Schulte-Nordhult—“Woodrow Wilson: Out of Touch Dreamer”
- Elizabeth Cobbs-Hoffman—“Woodrow Wilson: Man of his Times”
- Questions:
- How did the war further the Progressive agenda—AND undermine it?
- What do you think of Woodrow Wilson’s Leadership? Was he a hopeless dreamer who bungled the peace or the prescient advocate of a new and necessary world order?
