1. What was Henry George's critique of laissez-faire economics and what solution did he propose?

2. How did Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Henry George's Progress and Poverty influence American public opinion about government regulation?

1. How did Catholic and Protestant leaders respond to the challenges of urban industrial society?

2. What role did the Salvation Army play in addressing urban poverty?

1. What was the Social Gospel and how did it differ from traditional Christian beliefs about salvation?

2. How did Walter Rauschenbusch connect the Social Gospel movement to Progressive reform?

1. What role did settlement workers like Jane Addams play in addressing urban problems and establishing the social work profession?

1. How did the shift from rural to urban living affect family structure, divorce rates, and family size?

1. What progress did women make toward suffrage and property rights between 1869 and 1900?

1. What were the goals of the temperance movement and what organizations led the effort to restrict alcohol?

2. How did the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League differ in their approaches to temperance reform?

1. What efforts did urban reformers undertake to combat corruption in city governments?

1. How did realist writers like Mark Twain break with the genteel literary tradition of the post-Civil War era?

2. What was naturalism and how did naturalist authors like Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser depict American society?

1. How did American painters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins reflect the new emphasis on realism?

2. What contributions did James McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt make to American art while working in Europe?

3. What was the Armory Show and why did abstract art provoke such strong reactions from the American artistic community?

1. How did Henry Hobson Richardson and Louis Sullivan change American architectural design in the late 19th century?

2. What was Frank Lloyd Wright's organic style of architecture and how did it differ from other architectural approaches of his era?

3. What was Frederick Law Olmsted's contribution to American cities and urban planning?

1. How did critics and artists of the 1880s and 1890s lay the foundation for reforms that would occur in the early 20th century?