Why was united states reluctant to get involved in world war

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1. How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois differ in their approaches to racial inequality in the era of Jim Crow? Had you lived at this time, whose approach would you have supported and why? How did many Americans at this time justify racial inequality and Jim Crow segregation?

2. What impact did large-scale immigration have on the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century? Read "Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)" at the end of chapter 18 in The American Yawp textbook (make sure you use the online version to find this source, rather than the PDF version, or use the hyperlink) https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/18-industrial-america/jacob-riis-how-the-other-half-lives-1890 What do we learn from Riis's study about how "the other half [poor immigrants in urban slums] lives" and what suggestions does he have for helping immigrants ?

3. If you had lived in the 1890s, what would have been your opinion on the Homestead Strike, and why?

4. Why were so many Americans--women as well as men--uncomfortable with the idea of women voting? What did the women's suffrage movement do to win passage of the 19th Amendment?

5. Why was the United States reluctant to get involved in World War I? Why did the United States finally join the war?

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