11: Populism and Progressivism

11: Populism and Progressivism

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Race or mongrel: a brief history (Book)
Race or mongrel: a brief history (Book)
Race or mongrel: a brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of earth: a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with alien stocks: a demonstration that a nation's strength is due to racial purity: a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless immigration is rigorously restricted. This 1908 book should be used by teachers with caution though it could be an essential element illustrating the intolerance in America. It is just as important to know how awful these views of some Americans are, just as it is important to note how they can be overcome
#immigration#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·archive.org·
Race or mongrel: a brief history (Book)
Historiography of Progressivism - McCormick (Rutgers)
Historiography of Progressivism - McCormick (Rutgers)
This five-page read is only for teachers, though a thoughtful culling and editing of portions could be distilled for high school students. The progressives named themselves and their era, and historians have used that term for years though it recently has fallen out of favor. Why? Practitioners of history as a discipline of inquiry offer competing understandings of history over time - this article illustrates this dynamic.
#secondary sources#historiography#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·dentonisd.org·
Historiography of Progressivism - McCormick (Rutgers)
Theodore Roosevelt Annual Message to Congress, 1906
Theodore Roosevelt Annual Message to Congress, 1906
In Roosevelt's argument for an inheritance tax and income tax, he explains what the rich have to than the government for. This belongs in a DBQ alongside Reagan's (and Clinton's) "Government is the problem" and Obama's "You didn't build that" Why is it that the narrative canon doesn't recognize or admit Teddy's call for an income tax?
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the State, because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.<span class="diigoHighlightCommentLocator js-evernote-checked" data-evernote-id="453"></span><span class="diigoHighlightCommentLocator js-evernote-checked" data-evernote-id="455"></span> Not only should he recognize this obligation in the way he leads his daily life and in the way he earns and spends his money, but it should also be recognized by the way in which he pays for the protection the State gives him
#progressive era#President Theodore Roosevelt#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·teachingamericanhistory.org·
Theodore Roosevelt Annual Message to Congress, 1906
State of the Union Address Part II 1906 Theodore Roosevelt
State of the Union Address Part II 1906 Theodore Roosevelt
How many people teaching Theodore Roosevelt would believe that he argued for a Constitutional Amendment to relegate the authority to legislate divorce laws to the states? How many would believe that he argued that good people have a responsibility to have more children to prevent the death of the race? - Yet both are here in his 1906 Annual Message
I am well aware of how difficult it is to pass a constitutional amendment. Nevertheless in my judgment the whole question of marriage and divorce should be relegated to the authority of the National Congress.
Surely it should need no demonstration to show that wilful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement;
#President Theodore Roosevelt#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·teachingamericanhistory.org·
State of the Union Address Part II 1906 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt - The Man with the Muck-rake
Theodore Roosevelt - The Man with the Muck-rake
Although the term muckraker is often used in classrooms without any real investigation into the term, seeing it first used by Roosevelt shows how it was a pejorative term. Students can read through two or three paragraphs to see it
the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.
#President Theodore Roosevelt#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·americanrhetoric.com·
Theodore Roosevelt - The Man with the Muck-rake
Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech: Mesmerizing the Masses
Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech: Mesmerizing the Masses
Text of the speech and audio recording of Bryan repeating it after it was originally presented. The highlighted section shows how Ronald Reagan's "trickle down" theory was discounted almsot a hundred years before he exclaimed it
There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.
#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·historymatters.gmu.edu·
Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech: Mesmerizing the Masses
'Living Exhibits' at 1904 World's Fair Revisited : NPR
'Living Exhibits' at 1904 World's Fair Revisited : NPR
But Abeya says the experience had a positive side, too. She notes that many Igorots attended school for the first time while in St. Louis. After returning to the Philippines, Abeya's grandfather made sure all of his children and grandchildren received an education.
#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·npr.org·
'Living Exhibits' at 1904 World's Fair Revisited : NPR
Atlanta Exposition Speech, by Booker T. Washington, 1895 (Speech)
Atlanta Exposition Speech, by Booker T. Washington, 1895 (Speech)
Notice the title of this speech in the typed copy - isn't that different from the versions of the same speech that refer to it as the "Atlanta Compromise" speech? Who named the speech and when? How did one title for the speech become more prominent than the others? How is power exercised through the titling of the speech? How does this represent the psychological concept of anchoring
#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era#primary source#African Americans
·iowaculture.gov·
Atlanta Exposition Speech, by Booker T. Washington, 1895 (Speech)
Mulberry Street NYC c1900 LOC 3g04637u edit - History of New York City (1898–1945) - Wikipedia
Mulberry Street NYC c1900 LOC 3g04637u edit - History of New York City (1898–1945) - Wikipedia
Easy "Do Now" activity - have students play "hide and seek" by describing a detail in the image to the rest of the class and having the rest of the class look to find it. i.e the person farthest from the camera still looking at the camera, (note - click on the image for a much larger version)
#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era#historical pictures#lesson plan
·en.wikipedia.org·
Mulberry Street NYC c1900 LOC 3g04637u edit - History of New York City (1898–1945) - Wikipedia
The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900
The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900
This book published in 1902 is a belated response the "Uncle Tom's Cabin", written by a Baptist minister who grew up in the south during Reconstruction. This racist book claims that giving blacks the vote after the Civil War empowered them to take wealth from white people and give it to themselves. It is part of a three books series of which some claim was the inspiration for the movie "The Klansman", which became "Birth of a Nation"
#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era#African Americans#primary source
·archive.org·
The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900
(1901) Congressman George H. White’s Farewell Address To Congress
(1901) Congressman George H. White’s Farewell Address To Congress
George White was the las of the Reconstruction-era African-Americans to serve in Congress. This is his last speech. The next African-American was elected to Congress in 1928
This, Mr. Chairman, is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again…
#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era#African Americans#primary source
·blackpast.org·
(1901) Congressman George H. White’s Farewell Address To Congress
Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro : Hoffman, Frederick L. (Frederick Ludwig), 1865-1946
Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro : Hoffman, Frederick L. (Frederick Ludwig), 1865-1946
Using data from the 1890s census, Frederick Hoffman argues that African-Americans are a race that is going extinct, justifying higher insurance rates for them or the denial of coverage. he was an executive for the Prudential Insurance Company. He was also the PResident of the American Statistical Association and his papers are not housed at the National Library of Medicine
#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era#African Americans
·archive.org·
Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro : Hoffman, Frederick L. (Frederick Ludwig), 1865-1946
(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro
(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro
Negroism…is an attitude of mental density, a spiritual sensuousness; but that each of these characteristics, though endowed with great persistency and potency, is nevertheless amenable to radical treatment. On account of this belief I have pity and profound sympathy for an awakening group of negroes, to whom…I gladly reach out a hand of succor. On the other hand, I have a deep-seated aversion [and] unfeigned disgust for a distinctive phase of negro characteristic of those bereft of all uplifting desire, because I know that they deliberately…pander to every phase of racial viciousness and resist every attempt for social betterment.
The great majority, it is true, have all the defects and weaknesses attributed to them; but it is also a fact that good and true men and women are to be found among them,
#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era#African Americans
·blackpast.org·
(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro