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Reading the American Past Chapter 21,
Answer Comparison Questions 3 and 4 only
- To what extent did Booker T. Washington’s ideas about progress for black Americans differ from Howe’s characterization of anti-suffrage arguments? In what ways did W. E. B. Du Bois’s beliefs about the necessity of equality and political conflict compare with Howe’s depiction of anti-suffragist arguments?
- The documents in this chapter provide evidence of both the aspirations and limitations of progressivism. Judging from these documents, to what extent did the limitations of progressive reforms arise from the character of progressive aspirations? In what ways, if at all, did the commonly held aspirations of progressives differ from those of capitalists, working people, suffragists, and African Americans?