Question

In a paragraph of 3–5 sentences, evaluate the accomplishments of at least two

African American leaders during the Progressive Era.

Answer 1

see below

Step-by-step explanation:

1. rising social problems caused by rapid growth in cities

2. Lincoln Steffens

3. Robert La Follette

4. Debs had endured and shared the harsh working conditions of laborers.

5. Multiple officials are elected to run various city departments.

6. lecturing on women's suffrage

7. to advocate for laws restricting alcohol

8. Ida B. Wells

9. Roosevelt was nominated vice president to William McKinley.

10. It established national parks.

11. The Supreme Court actively regulated trusts and monopolies.

12. It proposed moderate progressive reforms.

13. The race between Roosevelt and Wilson kept progressive reform in the spotlight.

14. the desire to strengthen alliances with other countries

15. anti-imperialists: empire building goes against democracy | competition for foreign goods

Expansionists: access to international markets | network of naval bases around the world

16. Japan

17. It pushed American business interests out of Manchuria.

18. to allow the U.S. Navy to move quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific

19. The U.S. should spread democracy throughout Latin America. | The U.S. should police Latin America and had the right to do so.

20. He tried to extend the Open Door policy deeper into Manchuria.

21. Theodore Roosevelt - negotiated peace between Japan and Russia

William Howard Taft - repaid Latin American debts owed to Europe

Woodrow Wilson - recognized Japanese interests in Manchuria

22. It demonstrates William McKinley’s support for imperialism.

23. President McKinley and his expansionist policies

24. the annexation of the Philippines

- All African American Leaders sought to improve the lives of their people. Booker T. Washington proposed the Atlanta Compromise urging black Americans to focus on economic prosperity rather than civil rights. W.E.B Du Bois advocated for higher education. Ida B. Wells wrote articles about lynchings in the south. Although these reformers may not have lived to see it, they were all successful in providing a much stronger and better equality for their people.

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Answer 2

Ida B. Wells and Mary White Ovington, who were both founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were active in African American Rights. The NAACP played a very important role in an attempt to remove segregation and restore justice, especially in the South. The most important accomplishment, which was reached, was to end segregation in public schools.