Life in “Modern America”

Life in “Modern America”

Learning Objectives

  1. Summarize the way that popular culture reflected ideas about gender during the early 1900s.
  2. Evaluate the impact of labor reformers who were to the left of the mainstream political thought of the Progressives. Describe the way that Mother Jones and others sought to empower workers.
  3. Explain why some Americans supported the American Socialist Party and ideas of its leader Eugene Debs. Second, explain the perspectives of those who opposed the Socialists in the context of US history during these years.

 

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