Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 19

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 19

Instructions

This exercise asks you to assess the relationship between conclusions and evidence. Identify which of the following conclusions are supported by the specific piece of evidence. Click “yes” for those pieces of evidence that support the conclusion and “no” for those that do not.

Conclusion A

Progressive reformers operated from a set of shared assumptions that idealized white middle-class values and morality.

Question 19.19

Evidence 1: “Oh! by the danger they have dared; by the hours of patient watching over beds where helpless children lay; by the incense of ten thousand prayers wafted from their gentle lips to Heaven, I charge you give them power to protect, along life’s treacherous highway, those whom they have so loved.”Document 19.1: Frances Willard, On Behalf of Home Protection

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B.

Question 19.20

Evidence 2: “A girl who would yield to one man has probably had relations with another. Very likely she is diseased.”Document 19.2: Abstinence Poster

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B.

Question 19.21

Evidence 3: “Therefore, Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That on and after the passage of this act it shall be compulsory for each and every institution in the state, entrusted with the care of confirmed criminals, idiots, rapists, and imbeciles, to appoint upon its staff, in addition to the regular institutional physician, two skilled surgeons of recognized ability, whose duty it shall be, in conjunction with the chief physician of the institution, to examine the mental and physical condition of such inmates as are recommended by the institutional physician and board of managers.”Document 19.3: Indiana Sterilization Law

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B.

Question 19.22

Evidence 4: The list of sanitary precautions (screens, pure water, garbage cans, good sewage, medical science) included in Document 19.5: Sanitary Precaution

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B.

Conclusion B

Some progressives proposed and supported policies that were intended to prevent the growth of populations they deemed undesirable.

Question 19.23

Evidence 1: “DO NOT BELIEVE HIM if some ‘wise guy’ tells you that sexual intercourse is not dangerous.”Document 19.2: Abstinence Poster

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B.

Question 19.24

Evidence 2: “If, in the judgment of this committee of experts and the board of managers, procreation is inadvisable and there is no probability of improvement of the mental condition of the inmate, it shall be lawful for the surgeons to perform such operation for the prevention of procreation as shall be decided safest and most effective.”Document 19.3: Indiana Sterilization Law

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B.

Question 19.25

Evidence 3: “That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; persons with chronic alcoholism; paupers; professional beggars; vagrants; persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease.”Document 19.4: The Immigration Act of 1917

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B.

Question 19.26

Evidence 4: The depiction of the black woman in Document 19.5: Sanitary Precaution

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B.

Conclusion C

Progressives’ strategies for reforming American society often held immigrants, nonwhites, workers, and women responsible for the social and economic inequalities that shaped their lives.

Question 19.27

Evidence 1: “I thought that women ought to have the ballot as I paid the hard-earned taxes upon my mother’s cottage homebut I never said as muchsomehow the motive did not command my heart. For my own sake, I had not the courage, but I have for thy sake, dear native land, for thy necessity is as much greater than mine as thy transcendent hope is greater than the personal interest of thy humble child.”Document 19.1: Frances Willard, On Behalf of Home Protection

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B.

Question 19.28

Evidence 2: “Most prostitutes (private or public) have either syphilis or gonorrhea or both. Furthermore, there are no antiseptics, prophylactic treatments or other preventives which assure absolute safety.”Document 19.2: Abstinence Poster

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B.

Question 19.29

Evidence 3: “But this operation shall not be performed except in cases that have been pronounced unimprovable: Provided, That in no case shall the consultation fee be more than three dollars to each expert, to be paid out of the funds appropriated for the maintenance of such institution.”Document 19.3: Indiana Sterilization Law

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B.

Question 19.30

Evidence 4: Document 19.5: Sanitary Precaution

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B.