US History Reading Guide
Chapter 6: The Progressive Movement 1890-1920
Essential Questions: Can politics fix social problems?
Reading and Note Taking Homework:
Chapter 6 Lesson 1 – Monday, November 16th
Chapter 6 Lesson 2 – Thursday, November 19th
Chapter 6 Lesson 3 – Friday, November 20th
Chapter 6 Celebration of Learning – Tuesday, November 24th
Terms and People: You are expected to be able to identify all of the following terms and people by the end of this unit.
Not all of these terms are in bold, so you will need to pay careful attention to the reading and classroom lessons.
6.1 – The Roots of
Progressivism
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Progressives
Muckrakers
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Solutions to Corruption
“Laboratory of
Democracy”
Direct Primary
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
Child Labor Reform
Health and Safety Codes
Temperance Movement /
Prohibition
6.2 – Roosevelt and Taft
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Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
The Square Deal
Sherman Antitrust Act
Roosevelt Takes on the
Trusts
Northern Securities v.
United States
Coal Strike of 1902
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Arbitration
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
Pure Food and Drug Act
Environmental
Conservation
Gifford Pinchot
National Park Service
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Trustbuster
Taft’s Achievements
6.3 – The Wilson Years
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Bull-Moose Party
Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson
New Freedom vs. New
Nationalism
Underwood Tariff
Income Tax
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission
Unfair trade practices
Clayton Antitrust Act
New Role of Government
Limits of Progressivism