1. Explain the ways in which the populist and progressive reform movements were similar. In what ways were they different?
2. Which groups of people were attracted to the Socialist Party of America and/or the Industrial Workers of the World in the period 1900-1917? Why?
3. Who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)? Why? How did the founders of the NAACP differ in their ideas from Booker T. Washington?
4. What were some of the political and economic-social reforms enacted by state governments under the leadership of progressive governors such as Robert La Follette?
5. Discuss the contributions of Theodore Roosevelt and his U.S. Forest Service chief, Gifford Pinchot, to the conservation movement. Was Roosevelt also a preservationist? Which of his actions indicate he was or was not?
6. Compare and contrast Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalist platform with Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom.