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Assignment:

Read the online text and then thoroughly answer the Critical Thinking Questions.

Questions:

• Which of the primary features of grassroots Progressivism was the most essential to the continued growth and success of the reformist movement? Why? Describe the multiple groups and leaders that emerged in the fight for the Progressive agenda, including women's rights, African American rights, and workers' rights. How were the philosophies, agendas, strategies, and approaches of these leaders and organizations similar and different?
• How did President Theodore Roosevelt's "Square Deal" epitomize the notion that the federal government should serve as a steward protecting the public's interests?
• What vestiges of Progressivism can we see in our modern lives-politically, economically, and socially? Which of our present-day political processes, laws, institutions, and attitudes have roots in this era? Why have they had such staying power?
• Describe the United States' movement from isolationism to expansion-mindedness in the final decades of the nineteenth century. What ideas and philosophies underpinned this transformation?
• What factors conspired to propel the United States to emerge as a military and economic powerhouse prior to World War II?
• Why was the peace process at World War I's end in 1918 so lengthy? What complications did Wilson encounter in his attempts to promote the process and realize his postwar vision? What changes did the war bring to the everyday lives of Americans? How lasting were these changes?
• Explain how the 1920s was a decade of contradictions. What does the relationship between mass immigration and the rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan tell us about American attitudes? How might we reconcile the decade as the period of both the flapper and prohibition?
• Explain how technology took American culture in new and different directions. What role did motion pictures and radio play in shaping cultural attitudes in the United States?
• What were the possible causes of the Great Depression? To what extent could a stock market crash of the intensity of 1929 occur again in America?
• To what extent did the Great Depression catalyze important changes in Americans' perceptions of themselves, their national identity, and the role of their government? What evidence of these shifts can you find in the politics and values of our own times?