While progressivism has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that
a) individual rights should be expanded as widely as possible.
b) social darwinism could create social order and stability.
c) american society was capable of improvement.
d) urbanization was harmful to the united states.
e) the laissez-faire philosophy should be embraced in american politics.

Persuaded congress to adopt the missouri compromise in 1820. 1.) henry clay 2.) white southerners 3.) northerners 4.) thomas jefferson

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

Which principle do modern democracies share with ancient athens? a. all people deserve equal rights. b. there should be no taxation without representation. c. people should vote on all matters that concern them. d. people should have a voice in government.