chapter 17

Sec 1, 3,4

3. Wisconsin, Illinois, and Oregon can be considered as trailblazers because of many reasons. One was the leadership of Robert La Follette, who believed that businesses should have no say in politics, and William U’ren’s prompting for his state to draw up initiatives, laws made by non-elected people. Also Florence Kelley, a woman placed as the Illinois general secretary of industry helped end child-labor and give women better pay.

4. In this cartoon I believe that the artist takes a negative view on prohibitionist, because he has customers cowering behind a door, Carry Nation looking stern and slightly evil, and the saloon she attacked in ruins that even drunks would not attempt to do.

Sec 2, 5

5. If I was a women living in the progressive era I would get people to join with quite a few ways. For the improving of education I would tell people that education would help to free women from the shackles of domestic life. For food and drug laws I would tell people that the reform would lead to having more money in the family. And for the right to vote I would say that suffrage would make women feel more like a member of society and not a puppet for people to control.

Sec 3, 5

5. W.E.B. Du Bois opposed Booker T Washington’s views on discrimination and racial inequalities as the black mans fault and that they should accept it and not complain that they were not slaves anymore.

Sec 5, 4

4. Wilson avoided the Civil rights movement for many reason, one of which being his background, as a southerner he felt obligated to his region fearing that he might be considered a “traitor” rather than a savior. He also wished to remain popular with the people like Taft and Roosevelt before him. He also saw progressive movements as a way to make the nation stronger not the people in it.