Comparative Questions

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

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Document 20-1: Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers' Alliance

Document 20-2: White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina

Document 20-3: Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead

Document 20-4: Conflicting Views about Labor Unions

Document 20-5: Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines

  1. To what extent did Mary Lease's concepts of justice, freedom, and equality agree with those of Samuel Gompers and Emilio Aguinaldo? How did they compare with those of the Pinkertons at Homestead?
  2. How did N. F. Thompson's concepts of justice, freedom, and democracy compare with or differ from the ideals of American policy in the Philippines?
  3. In what ways did the experiences of Filipinos compare with those of black Republicans in Wilmington? Does the comparison suggest a significant relationship between American racial oppression and imperialism?
  4. Judging from the documents in this chapter, what ideals and values united Americans in the 1890s under the deep fissures of class, race, and region?