To what extent did Progressivism fail to help minorities?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should easily see that racial issues were not a high priority for Progressive reformers. Lynchings and race riots took place throughout the United States, indicating that race relations were not just a problem in the South. Students will want to look at the efforts of W.E.B. DuBois and Ida B. Wells in challenging the existing systems of terror and segregation, plus the creation of the NAACP as a vehicle for improving race relations and judge why these initiatives did not gain wider support. Better students may bring in Hiram Johnson's support for anti-Asian legislation in California as further evidence that Progressives did not place much emphasis on race relations. Good students will also see that the problems of race defied the scientific approach that Progressives admired.
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Describe how Christians viewed Muslims in the medieval period, and discuss the consequences of these views for Christian-Muslim relationships in the Middle East at the time.
What will be an ideal response?
Describe the disparities among the various social classes in European urban society between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Who were the bourgeoisie? What conditions did the poorer classes endure?
What will be an ideal response?
The great majority of cases tried by the colonial Inquisition had to do with
A) heresy. B) the reading of forbidden books. C) political subversion. D) offenses against morality.
How did the storming of the Bastille impact the course of the Revolution? What led to this act?
What will be an ideal response?