UNIT 8: Progressivism and Imperialism (1896-1917)
TIME FRAME: (2.5weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date Feb. 26th for Binder, Terms, AP PARTS
documents PACE YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY- LAST WEEK OF UNIT PLAN SHOULD BE STRICTLY
REVIEW!!
Big Picture:
From 1890 to 1918, the United States became increasingly active and aggressive in world affairs. The Progressive
movement partially succeeded in improving life for average Americans by curbing big business, making the
government more responsive to the will of the people, and enacting social welfare legislation.
Themes:
Diversity, American identity, culture, demographic changes, economic transformations, environment, politics and
citizenship, reform, globalization, war and diplomacy
Required Readings:
Chapters 24 (p. 690-696), 21, 22, 23 in Divine
Chapter 12 in Zinn: “The Empire and the People” ( February 14th, B Day)
Chapter 13 in Zinn: “The Socialist Challenge” (EXTRA CREDIT/ OPTIONAL) Due February 21st All classes
Primary Sources:
 Rooseveltvwilson
 Spanishamericanwarsdocs
 twainandwhitemansburdens
Special Activities: Complete a Core Structure Sheet for each
FRQs:
1) Compare the debates that took place over American expansionism in the 1840's with those that took place
in the 1890's analyzing the similarities and differences in the debates of the two eras.
2) How successful were progressive reforms during the period 1890 to 1915 with respect to the all of the
following?
 Industrial conditions
 Urban life
 Politics
3) Summarize the reasons for US involvement in the Caribbean and Latin America and its impact on selected
nations and people.
4) Assess the social, economic and political ramification of US expansion between 1867-1914.
Content:
Women’s roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform
Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents
Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national
Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century
American imperialism: political and economic expansion
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TERMS TO KNOW
new manifest destiny”
Monroe Doctrine
Maximilian of Mexico
Alaska Purchase Treaty
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890)
Social Darwinism, “survival of the fittest”
Josiah Strong, Our Country, 1886
“yellow journalism,” William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
Pan-Americanism
Samoan Crisis, Pago Pago
Venezuela Boundary Dispute, 1895-96
President Grover Cleveland
Hawaii
Queen Liliuokalani
Cuba
reconcentration
“Butcher” Weyler
explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
Spanish-American War
Teller Amendment
Philippines
Commodore George Dewey
Battle of Manila Bay
Emilio Aguinaldo
“Rough Riders”
Treaty of Paris, 1899
Guam
Puerto Rico
Anti-Imperialist League
Insular cases
Platt Amendment
“splendid little war”
Philippines Insurrection
William H. Taft, Philippine Commission
Open Door Policy
“spheres of influence”
Open Door Note
Secretary of State John Hay
Boxer Rebellion
President McKinley assassinated
President Theodore Roosevelt
“Big Stick” policy
Panama Canal
“gunboat diplomacy”
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Venezuela Crisis, 190s
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“Colossus of the North”
Russo-Japanese War
Treaty of Portsmouth
San Francisco School Board Incident
“Gentleman’s Agreement,” 1906
“Great White Fleet”
Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
President Woodrow Wilson
Panama Canal Tolls Act
Jones Act, 1916
Jones Act, 1917
“Moral Diplomacy”
Mexican Revolution
“Pancho” Villa
General John J. Pershing
Greenback Labor Party
Populists
Mugwumps
Progressives
plutocracy
political machines
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Social Gospel movement
Muckrakers
Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Jane Addams, Hull House
Florence Kelley
Muller v. Oregon, 1906
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
Child Labor Act, 1916
Robert La Follette
“Wisconsin Experiment”
direct primary
initiative, referendum, recall
direct election of senators
17th Amendment
Republican “Old Guard”
Australian Ballot
commission system
President Theodore Roosevelt
“Square Deal”
Anthracite Coal Strike
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Corporations
Northern Securities Co.
trust busting
Hepburn Act, 1906
96. Meat Inspection Act, 1906
97. Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
98. Gifford Pinchot
99. Newlands Reclamation Act, 1902
100. Panic of 1907
101. President William H. Taft
102. “rule of reason”
103. Bureau of Mines
104. Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1910
105. Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
106. “Uncle” Joe Cannon
107. “New Nationalism”
108. “Bull-Moose” Party
109. Election of 1912
110. “New Freedom”
111. President Woodrow Wilson
112. Eugene Debs, Socialist party
113. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
114. Underwood Tariff Bill, 1913
115. 16th Amendment
116. Federal Reserve Act, 1913
117. Federal Trade Commission, 1914
118. Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914
119. Louis Brandeis
120. Lochner v. U.S., 1905
121. Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 1923
122. Schenck v. U.S.
123. Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Francis Willard
124. Anti-Saloon League
125. 18th Amendment
126. Volstead Act, 1920
127. National American Women’s Suffrage Association
128. Carrie Chapman Catt, “Winning Plan”
129. Alice Paul
130. 19th Amendment
131. Jeannette Rankin
132. Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
133. Chicago Race Riot, 1919
134. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
135. Booker T. Washington
136. W. E. B. Du Bois
137. Niagara Movement
138. “talented tenth”
139. NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
140. D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation
141. Ku Klux Klan
142. eugenics