Write a couple of paragraphs addressing the general responses to address and redress the challenges corporate capitalism created in American society.

Write a couple of paragraphs addressing the general responses to address and redress the challenges corporate capitalism created in American society. Is there any one “solution” proposed that you find most persuasive? Why?

William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca.1880s)

Henry George, Progress and Poverty, Selections (1879)

Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (June 1889)

The “Omaha Platform” of the People’s Party (1892)

Dispatch from a Mississippi Colored Farmers’ Alliance (1889)

Having read the documents affiliated with Chapters 17 & 18, write a couple of paragraphs on what sense — what meaning — the authors are trying to make about America

17. The West

18. Life in Industrial America

Having read the documents below , write 2 paragraphs on how “insiders” perceive themselves in light of the “outsiders”?

William McKinley on American Expansionism (1903)

Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899)

James D. Phelan, “Why the Chinese Should Be Excluded” (1901)

African Americans Debate Enlistment (1898)

Based on your reading in the textbook and the “debate” documents between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, what do you think THEY think is the future of race relations in America? Are either of them optimistic or not?

18. Life in Industrial America

Eugene Debs, “How I Became a Socialist” (April, 1902)

Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” (1892)

Alice Stone Blackwell, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage (1917)

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