Monday,+April+26th+-+Unit+12+-+The+Progressive+Era

Previous multiple choice questions have covered:

W.E.B DuBois Booker T. Washington (Atlanta Compromise) Black Codes Exodusters Ida B. Wells Slaughter House Cases Redeemers Plessy v. Ferguson Populism Omaha Platform Silver vs Gold debates "Cross of Gold" speech Sherman Anti-Trust Act Volstead Act Pure Food and Drug Act Theodore Roosevelt The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair Federal Trade Commission Federal Reserve System Woodrow Wilson Constitutional Amendments regarding: income tax, women's suffrage, prohibition and direct election of senators

The following is a list of previous DBQs and FRQs from past exams:

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1877-1915, assess the appropriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which each was developed.
 * __DBQs__**

1. Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth century.
 * __FRQs__**

2. Analyze the ways in which state and federal legislation and judicial decisions, including those of the Supreme Court, affected the efforts of any TWO of the following groups to improve their position in society between 1880 and 1920: (1) African Americans, (2) Farmers, (3) Workers

Note: Many questions overlap between the Progressive Era and our unit on Imperialism. There will be more questions in the later sections that reflect this trend.

__**AP Topics**__ Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century Origins of the Progressive reform; municipal, state, and national Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson as Progressive presidents Women's roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives
 * Populism and Progressivism**