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Required Reading
Foner Chapter 18
Zinn Chapter 13
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Assignment
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Why was the city such a central element in Progressive America?
How did the labor and women's movements challenge the nineteenth-century meanings of
American freedom?
In what ways did Progressivism include both democratic and antidemocrat impulses?
How did the Progressive presidents foster the rise of the nation-state?
Identify the main groups and ideas that drove the Progressive movement.
Explain how immigration to the United States in this period was part of a global movement of peoples.
Describe how Fordism transformed American industrial and consumer society.
Socialism was a rising force across the globe in the early twentieth century. How successful was the movement in the United States?
Explain why the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) grew so rapidly and aroused so much opposition.
How did immigrants adjust to life in America? What institutions or activities became important to their adjustment, and why?
What did Progressive-era feminists want to change in society, and how did their actions help to spearhead broader reforms?
How did ideas of women's roles, shared by maternalst reformers, lead to an expansion of activism by and rights for women.
How did each Progressive-era president view the role of the federal government?
Pick a Progressive-era reform (a movement, specific legislation, and organization) and describe how it shows how Progressives could work for both the expansion of democracy and restrictions on it.