Progressive DBQ- Document I

Thesis:
While the Progressive Era (1900-1920) did effectively foster significant advancements in national-level reform movements pertaining to environmental conservation, worker's rights, and trust-busting, many marginalized groups such as immigrants and African Americans remained inherently underprivileged due to inadequate federal support.
Source Evaluation: Document I
     a. Despite America's progress, the fact that the country still does nothing in the wake of the lynchings, beatings, brutality, and disenfranchisement of African Americans renders the United States still as a "shameful land".
     b. The intended audience is the American government and public, especially those who remain idle about African American struggles.
     c. The point of view established here is a reformative point of view, influenced by the undressed discrimination and hatred towards blacks.
     d. This can be linked to the Massachusetts 54th, World War I, Bourbon Democrats, and Reconstruction.
     e. Outside information: du Bois' foundation of the NAACP, Jim Crow laws.