Populist And Progressive Movements: Impact On The Lives Of Americans

1. Try to be as specific as possible. Cite people and ideas by name.

For Example:

--Describe the Gospel of Wealth from question #1 similar to this—>The Gospel of Wealth developed to defend the successes of early industrialists and to limit the scope of reform. The ideology rested on Social Darwinism's belief in survival of the fittest and the Laissez-Faire belief in a perfectly free market. This two ideas meant that businessmen should be able to create and dispose of their wealth however they saw fit.

--DO NOT WRITE THIS: The Gospel of Wealth did not like reform.

2. Condense.

--Notice that the first example above was taken from a much longer section under the "course materials" bar. The section on the Gospel of Wealth is reprinted below to help you see how to shorten the material.

----C. The Gospel of Wealth

As the corporate consolidation movement produced successful business, industrialists developed an ideology to justify and to defend their practices. They combined Laissez-Faire economics and Social Darwinism into the Gospel of Wealth.