To what extent did Progressivism fail to help minorities?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: 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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A) resulted in territorial gain for Germany. B) averted war between the two rival alliance systems. C) allowed France to have a free hand in Morocco. D) maintained Morocco?s independence. E) all of the above.
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a. A drive to encourage young aristocrats to attend universities, such as the University of Paris. b. A field of study that focused on astrophysics, philosophy, and Christian theology. c. A medieval method of determining theological and philosophical truth by using Aristotelian logic. d. A technique of learning derived from application of the Socratic dialectic.
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a. child labor b. interchangeable parts c. synthetic materials d. slave labor e. wage and price controls
The Los Angeles-based organization founded by James Fifield
A. promoted the idea that the role of government in American life must be increased in order to establish a just society. B. popularized a theological justification for free market economies. C. argued that bankers and socialists were conspiring to take over the U.S. government. D. embraced the Cold War and American interventionism.