Discussion #5: How progressive was the Progressive Period?
The Progressive period stands out as a time when reformers sought to deal with social ills caused by a quickly altering society. Debates surrounded points resembling political corruption, the regulation of enterprise practices, racial equality, girls’s suffrage and the dwelling situations of impoverished immigrants overcrowded into city slums.
With the intention to put together for this dialogue discussion board:
Overview and establish the related sections of Chapter 22 that Help your dialogue.
Learn Booker T. Washington’s speech The Atlanta Compromise
Learn W.E.B. Du Bois The Niagara Motion
The Niagara Motion’s “Declaration of Rules” by W.E.B.Du Bois
The Girls’s Suffrage Motion
Excerpt from How the Different Half Lives by Jacob Riis and the pictures of Jacob Riis.
After you might have accomplished your readings publish a response to solely ONE of the following questions.
Examine and distinction the concepts of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. In your opinion, which of those two males had a greater plan? Clarify why.
When it got here to the problem of suffrage, did all girls agree? Clarify.
Which social drawback was Jacob Riis addressing via his work? How did he talk the severity of this drawback?
