Explain why reforms of progressive presidents

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Prompts: Choose ONE of the following:

Choose two arguments Americans used to support armed interventions abroad in the period from 1890 to 1914. Using documents, readings, and other course materials explain why those arguments were/are justified or unjustified.

Be sure to discuss some or all of the following: White man's burden, Christian missionaries, imperialism, colonialism, Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo, Cuba, Spanish-American War, Mexico, immigration, etc.
Be sure to use documents included in previous modules to support your statements and position.

With the Great Depression as an outcome, explain why reforms of progressive presidents, from Theodore Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson, were not enough to deal with racial, economic, and political inequality in the United States?

This question is much more expansive than the original discussion.
Your response should discuss elements such as the Populist Movement, Eugene Debs, Jacob Riis, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Walter Rauschenbusch, Social Darwinism, socialism, Sixteenth Amendment, Seventeenth Amendment, Eighteenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment, Pure Food and Drug Acts, Federal Trade Commission, conservation, preservation, Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914), Panic of 1907 (an economic downturn similar, but not as impactful as the Great Depression), Red Summer.

The Native American removal has been compared to ethnic cleansing (the mass killing, expulsion, and/or deportation of a racial, ethnic, or religious group). Is this an accurate description of United States actions towards Native Americans during the late nineteenth century? How was their treatment a harbinger or omen of imperialism/colonialism; that is to say how did their treatment tell us how new colonies (the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico) would be treated? Explain your response.

Your response should discuss elements such as the Dawes Severalty Act, assimilation, reservations, railroads, mining, Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Nez Perce, boarding schools, Little Bighorn, Ghost Dance, Native American citizenship and right to vote.

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