1. Read the quotation from a speech delivered by President Theodore Roosevelt and answer the question.
We have become great in a material sense because of the lavish use of our resources, and we have just reason to be proud of our growth. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils shall have been still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields, and obstructing navigation. These questions do not relate only to the next century or to the next generation. One distinguishing characteristic of really civilized men is foresight; we have to, as a nation, exercise foresight for this nation in the future; and if we do not exercise that foresight, dark will be the future!
— President Theodore Roosevelt, May 13, 1908 How did these beliefs influence Roosevelt's presidency?
2.How did laissez-faire economic policies affect women in the United States in the late 1800s?
3.Study the 1904 political cartoon illustrating the effects of Plessy v. Ferguson and answer the question. (cartoon is pinned)What did the artist believe regarding US society under the ruling in Plessy?
4.Read the excerpt from future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis’s Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It, published in 1913, and answer the question.
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. And publicity has already played an important part in the struggle against the Money Trust. The Pujo Committee1 has, in the disclosure of the facts concerning financial concentration, made a most important contribution toward attainment of the New Freedom. . . . But there should be a further call upon publicity for service. That potent force must, in the impending struggle, be utilized in many ways as a continuous remedial measure.
1Pujo Committee: A congressional subcommittee convened in 1912–1913 to investigate the influence of the banking industry over the country’s finances.
During the Progressive Era, who were the people that sought to use publicity “as a remedy for social and industrial diseases” and reported on corruption in US politics and businesses?
5.What was NOT a purpose of Hull House?
6.Use the image of tenement buildings in New York to answer the question.(image is pinned)Why did tenement buildings like these become commonplace in early twentieth-century cities?
7. Which development accompanied the rapid growth of industry between 1870 and 1890?
8.In the late nineteenth century, many areas of the South enacted Jim Crow laws. What was one purpose of these laws?
