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Progressive Era and Imperialism
Compare and Contrast
Task:
• Each table has a set of documents and terms
on strips of paper.
• Place the documents into two piles– one pile
for Progressive Era documents and the other
for Imperialism documents.
• Look through the strips of paper. Which words
do you associate with each document? Place
the terms near the document.
Something can be done by legislation to help the general
prosperity;
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its
exceptional men. The problem of education, then,
among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented
Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this
race that they may guide the Mass away from the
contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and
other races. Now the training of men is a difficult and
intricate task.
Business is in a situation in America which it was never in before; it is in a
situation to which we have not adjusted our laws. Our laws are still
meant for business done by individuals; they have not been satisfactorily
adjusted to business done by great combinations, and we have got to
adjust them. I do not say we may or may not; I say we must; there is no
choice. If your laws do not fit your facts, the facts are not injured, the law
is damaged; because the law, unless I have studied it amiss, is the
expression of the facts in legal relationships. Laws have never altered the
facts; laws have always necessarily expressed the facts; adjusted interests
as they have arisen and have changed toward one another.
Politics in America is in a case which sadly requires attention. The system
set up by our law and our usage doesn’t work,—or at least it can’t be
depended on; it is made to work only by a most unreasonable
expenditure of labor and pains. The government, which was designed for
the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the
special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of
democracy.
We earnestly condemn the policy of the present National Administration in
the Philippines. It seeks to extinguish the spirit of 1776 in those islands. We
deplore the sacrifice of our soldiers and sailors, whose bravery deserves
admiration even in an unjust war. We denounce the slaughter of the Filipinos
as a needless horror. We protest against the extension of American
sovereignty by Spanish methods.
We demand the immediate cessation of the war against liberty, begun by
Spain and continued by us. We urge that Congress be promptly convened to
announce to the Filipinos our purpose to concede to them the independence
for which they have so long fought and which of right is theirs.
The United States have always protested against the doctrine of international
law which permits the subjugation of the weak by the strong. A selfgoverning state cannot accept sovereignty over an unwilling people. The
United States cannot act upon the ancient heresy that might makes right.
Terms
Progressive
• 19th Amendment
• Suffrage
• FDA
• Trust-busting
• WEB DuBois
• African American Rights
• Government Oversight
Imperial
• Pro- Colonization
• Anti- Colonization
• Antebellum Westward
Expansion
• Empire
• Power
• Ethnocentrism