Was Progressivism an inspirational movement to further the nation’s democratic ideals or was it an attempt at social control by self-important, moralist busybodies? To what extent (how much) was Progressivism an expression of American’s old utopian tenden

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• EACH question posed below needs to be answered in a lengthy paragraph of At Least 10-15 college-level quality, analytical sentences with 3 citation/quote from Cobbs example: (Cobbs, 94)
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Introduction & Cobbs’ Chapters 5 & 6

Read Introduction: How to Read Primary and Secondary Sources

Read the following from Chapter 5 (The Progressive Movement) and Answer the questions:

1. Documents:
   1. Utopian Edward Bellamy Scorns the Callousness of the Rich, 1888
   2. Black Educator Booker T Washington Advocates Compromise and Self-Reliance, 1901
   3. NAACP Founder W.E.B. Dubois Denounces Compromise on Negro Education and Civil Rights, 1903
2. Essays:
   1. Michael McGerr—“Class, Gender and Race at Home: The American Birthplace of Progressivism.”
   2. Daniel T Rodgers—“American Progressivism in the Wider Atlantic World”
   3. Questions:
      1. Was Progressivism an inspirational movement to further the nation’s democratic ideals or was it an attempt at social control by self-important, moralist busybodies?
      2. To what extent (how much) was Progressivism an expression of American’s old utopian tendencies, and to what extent was it a reaction common to all industrializing nations?

   Read the following from Chapter 6 (WWI and the League of Nations) and Answer the questions:

   1. Documents:
      1. President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War, 1917
      2. Senator Robert La Follette Passionately Dissents, 1917
      3. Wilson Proposes a New World Order in the “Fourteen Points,” 1918
      4. An Ambulance Surgeon Describes What it was like “Over There,” 1918
   2. Essays:
      1. Jan Schulte-Nordhult—“Woodrow Wilson: Out of Touch Dreamer”
      2. Elizabeth Cobbs-Hoffman—“Woodrow Wilson: Man of his Times”
   3. Questions:
      1. How did the war further the Progressive agenda—AND undermine it?
      2. What do you think of Woodrow Wilson’s Leadership? Was he a hopeless dreamer who bungled the peace or the prescient advocate of a new and necessary world order?