Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

1. Question

   What role does Frances Willard suggest women should play in controlling the behavior of men (Document 19.5)? What light does Willard’s memoir shed on the role of motherhood in shaping progressive values?

2. Question

   What connection does the abstinence poster make between disease and vice (Document 19.6)? What do you make of the absence of a direct moral argument against promiscuity in the poster?

3. Question

   Why was eugenics so attractive to many progressive reformers (see Document 19.7)?

4. Question

   Who benefited and who lost from immigration restriction laws (Document 19.8), temperance laws, and antiprostitution laws?

5. Question

   What racial assumptions lie behind the cartoon on health threats (Document 19.9)?

• Question

  How did the progressives’ emphasis on disease reflect their larger vision of American society at the turn of the twentieth century?

• Question

  How did progressives’ understanding of the sources of disease shape the kinds of “cures” they proposed for America’s ills?