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Questions:

1. What brought about the modern city, and what factors accounted for the urban explosion of the late nineteenth century?

2. Describe immigrant life in the city.

3. What roles did education perform in the late nineteenth century?

4. Compare and contrast the Democratic and Republican Parties in the last third of the nineteenth century.

5. What was "free silver"? Discuss the two most important ways it would benefit indebted farmers and other debtor classes.

6. Explain the absence of strong presidential leadership in the late nineteenth century.

7. How was Theodore Roosevelt a conservative? In what ways was he a reformer?

8. In what ways did Woodrow Wilson bring progressivism to high tide?

9. How did progressives redefine poverty? Why was that important? Where and why did progressive solutions for the problems of poverty fall short?

10. What was "missionary" about Woodrow Wilson's diplomacy, and how successful was he?

11. How did progressivism shape the home front during World War I?

12. What were the results of the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles?

13. What factors produced unprecedented economic growth in the 1920s?

14. How did mass media and mass culture reshape American life in the 1920s?

15. What caused the Great Depression and what role did the Great Crash play in it?