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| What core beliefs united the progressives? |
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| They believed that through science man was capable of understanding the world. If man was capable of understanding the world, then he would be capable of improving it. They believed that wealth and power lead to corruption and injustice. They wanted to protect the vulnerable and saw the poor, black, women as such. They believed that effective change could not come about without government intervention. |
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| Who was the “new woman” of the Progressive Era? |
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| How did women of the Progressive Era use conservative ideas about womanhood to pass societal reforms and win new rights? |
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| How did Progressives reform municipal and state governments? |
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| How did the role of the federal government change during the Progressive Era? |
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| What groups supported socialism in America? What internal disagreements divided American socialists? What external forces crushed American socialism? |
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| How did the government organize the economy and society during World War I? |
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| Why and how did racial and labor turmoil sweep the nation after World War I? How did this turmoil contribute to Nativist sentiment and Nativist policies in the 1920s? |
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| How did Nativists explain the turmoil of post-World War I America? How did Nativists address the post-war turmoil? |
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| Why did the American economy boom in the early 1920s? |
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| What did the consumer culture of the 1920s look like? |
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| What groups reacted negatively to the new mass culture of the 1920s? |
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| What problems in the economy of the 1920s led to the Great Depression? |
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| How did the New Deal address the Great Depression? |
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| How did the New Deal alter the relationship between the government, society, and the economy? |
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| The new deal altered the relationship between the government, society, and the economy. The government became larger which increased its power. That in turn decreased the power of socity being able to control the economy as much because the businesses were more regulated. With new acts and powers given to unions the way the government interacts with the economy changed. The government now had more control over what they felt should happen in the economy. Society felt more power in being able to mobilize with unions and felt that the voice of the worker was now heard. One didnt have to own a major corperation to have a part in the business world now. One could strike and bring the economy to a halt which would make the government pick sides. |
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| How did the New Deal affect women and African Americans? |
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| The new deal did affect woman and blacks. They were not affected as much as one might think on the surface though. Blacks got political positions and were in a black cabinet created by FDR's wife, but in the south, where the majority of blacks were, the Senators, because of seniority, would shoot down anything they tried to do. Changes as it turns out were limited. They still could not get loans, own property, and in many cases vote. Their situation for the most part stayed the same. Women did get a larger more positive increase. They got appointed to many different offices and positions. The wage for pink collar jobs, jobs typically taken by women, increased from where it had been. They were more independent because of earlier technologies and they started to get more political freedom as well. They had a low to middle increase in their situation. |
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