Question

The Progressive movement was sometimes misguided in its interaction with racial minorities because Progressive reformers

A. believed that racial minorities were incapable of becoming true Americans.
B. were pushing for women's right to vote.
C. believed that immigrants shouldn't vote.
D. pushed white American middle-class culture as the superior way of living.

Answer 1

The answer is D. They try to push a certain lifestyle into racial minorities that they are not accustomed to. The bad part about this is that you are robbing people of their identity when you try to impose your way of life on them.

Answer 2

The correct answer is D. pushed white American middle-class culture as the superior way of living.

There was a belief that the middle class way of life was the way to go and the progressives didn't want truly try to be inclusive of other cultures since they mostly wanted to just help other minorities to assimilate and adopt this way of life. This would mean that they would probably have to abandon some of their cultural practices in order to get their rights.