AP US History –Cerbone
Unit 6 The Progressive Era & Imperialism
Day 1
Class
1/31
Topics
Progressivism
Muckrakers
Day 2
2/4 2/5
Progressive politics; the
Square Deal
Day 3
2/6 2/7
TR & Expansion of
Executive Power
Day 4
2/10 2/11
Seminar: The Forgotten –
African Americans in the
Progressive Era
Day 5 2/12 2/13
Taft & Wilson:
Progressivism at home &
abroad
The US as an imperial
power
Day 6 2/14 2/17
Day 7 2/18 2/19
Day 8 2/20 2/21
Homework Due
Read & Take notes America’s History Chapter 17
pp.536-537;540-543 AND Chapter 19 pp. 604606;609-615
Read & take notes America’s History Chapter 20
pp621-635
Outline of TR Documentary 1:33:00 – 2:17:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U0Z_YfeWPA
America’s History Read & take Notes pp 639 - 649
Readings: Du Bois & Marcus Garvey from wiki
w/Questions
America’s History Reading pp.562 AfricanAmericans & Education; Civil Rights pp. 641-642
Outline: Empire: Spanish American War Epis. 1-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urtm4GpjFu4
Reading: The Lion in the Path article from wiki
‘Remember The Maine’ Article from wiki
The US as an imperial
power (cont.)
Read and take notes America’s History Chapter 21
pp. 653 - 667
Test: 30 MC & FRQ
Unit 6 SFI
Unit 6 review questions
Terms for Identification -SFI
NAACP
WEB Dubois
Marcus Garvey
William James
Booker T. Washington
Coxley’s Army
Settlement Houses
Social Gospel
“muscular Christianity”
Josiah Strong
Socialism
Municipal Reform
Secret Ballot
Muckrakers
Ida M. Tarbell
piecework
Triangle Shirt Waist Factory
Fire
Theodore Dreiser
Upton Sinclair
Eugene Debs
John Spargo
Wobblies
Blue collar/White collar jobs
Carrie Chapman Catt
NWSA
Comstock Act
“New Woman”
“Gibson Girl”
Alice Paul
Frances Willard
Feminism
Maternalism
Realism
naturalism
modernism
DAR
UDC
eugenics
National Women’s Party
Carrie Nation
Robert Lafollette
Initiative, referendum, recall
American exceptionalism
The Spanish American War
“Remember the Maine”
Yellow Journalism
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Cuba & Puerto Rico
Open Door Policy
“Preventative intervention”
General ‘Black Jack’ Pershing
Platt Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
Emilio Aguinaldo
Great White Fleet
Anti-Imperialism League
Burlingame Treaty
Panama Canal
Hay-Bunua-Varilla Treaty
Lochner v NY
Theodore Roosevelt
John Muir
Lacey Act
Square Deal
Anthracite Coal Strike
Boxer Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War
Spheres of Influence
“Yellow peril”
Henry Cabot Lodge
Big Stick Policy
Clayton Anti-Trust Law
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
19th Amendment
Federal Reserve System
William Howard Taft
Ballinger-Pinchot Scandal
Bull Moose Party
Woodrow Wilson
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questions for Review –Due on the day of the test. For each response, please underline each piece
of SFI used to answer the question.
1. Explain how the reform movement changed and how major politicians approached the
reform movement after 1900.
2. Reformers in the Progressive Era came from different backgrounds and represented
several distinct interests. What are some of those backgrounds and interests? How did
their goals differ?
3. What types of progressive legislation passed in the early 1900s? How might results have
been different if William McKinley had survived the assassination attempt?
4. What role did federal courts play in the political transformations of the late 1890 –
1900s? (Focus on: Plessy v. Ferguson; Lochner v. New York; Mueller v. Oregon;
Northern Securities v. US)
5. How did economic interests affect American involvement in overseas expansion?
6. What were the causes and consequences of the Spanish-American War?
7. Compare & contrast the ‘vision’ for African-Americans expressed by DuBois,
Washington & Garvey