HONORS U.S. HISTORY: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
Resources.
A People and A Nation, Chapter 21
The Jungle excerpt
1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech & 1906 Niagara Movement Speech
The Woman Rebel: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement
The Ambiguous Legacies of Women’s Progressivism
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice film
class notes and activities
The Progressive Era: Key Questions.
1. Explain why the Progressive reform movements emerged at this time in the U.S.
2. According to APAN, what were Progressives’ 3 main goals to address problems they saw in
society? How did Progressives address these problems?
3. What was the one key belief they all had in common, in spite of many differences?
4. Who was the “typical Progressive”? How did middle class and working class reformers
differ?
5. How were Progressives working towards political and governmental reforms and what
obstacles did they face?
6. How did reformers try to legislate morality and what does it reveal about these Progressives?
7. Compare the goals and methods of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
8. In what ways was Margaret Sanger a ‘typical’ progressive and in what ways did she not
reflect the progressives? Similarly, Ida B. Wells?
9. What were the arguments supporting and opposing birth control use?
10. How did Progressive female reformers’ efforts empower women? In what ways did their
efforts deny women equality? – consider race, class, and gender – and give specific
examples.
11. Compare the range of Progressives studied: who would build like-minded coalitions and
who might clash? Why?
Key Terms.
Florence Kelley
muckrakers
initiative
Socialists
17th Amendment
Social Gospel Movement
1910 Mann Act
Atlanta Compromise
NAACP
“the woman movement”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
suffrage
Teddy Roosevelt
Pure Food and Drug Act
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Farm Loan Act
Progressives
Upton Sinclair
referendum
Eugene V. Debs
protective labor legislation
WCTU
WEB Du Bois
Niagara Movement
Ida B. Wells
women’s clubs
Margaret Sanger
Carrie Chapman Catt
“trustbuster”
United Mine Workers strike
16th Amendment
New Nationalism
FTC
Adamson Act
social institution
Ida M. Tarbell
recall
Robert M. La Follette
Muller v. Oregon
18th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
“Talented Tenth”
Society of Amer. Indians
feminism
19th Amendment
Alice Paul
Meat Inspection Act
Gifford Pinchot
Progressive Party
New Freedom
Federal Reserve Act
Election of 1916
Honors U.S. History - Textbook Noteguide – The Progressive Era 1895-1920
I. Intro and Progressive Impulse 599-605
- Florence Kelley
- 3 goals of Progressives
- urban v. rural reformers; middle-class reformers
- muckrakers
- reforms to the political process
- scientific management and reform
- upper-class reformers, working-class reformers, socialists
- opponents of Progressivism
II. Governmental and Legislative Reform 605-608
- reforming corruption in government
- Progressive governors; 17th Amendment
- Labor reform; Moral reform
III. Challenges to Racial Discrimination 613-615
- Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
- Society of American Indians
IV. Challenges to Sexual Discrimination 616-619
- “the Woman Movement”; Women’s Clubs; Feminism
- Margaret Sanger
- Suffrage
V. Theodore Roosevelt and the Presidency 619-623
- regulation
- conservation
- Panic of 1907
- Taft Administration
VI. Woodrow Wilson and Conclusion 623-626
- New Nationalism and New Freedom
- Business Regulation; Tariff and Tax Reform
- Election of 1916