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Textbook --> pp. 494 - 500.
1. What was Progressivism? What were its major goals?
2. Which groups/special interests tended to be attracted to Progressivism?
What were their motives?
3. Why did so many upper- and middle-class women become progressives?
4. What was Florence Kelley's role in the progressive reform movement?
5. How did the WCTU work for progressive goals?
6. Contrast the goals and effects of scientific management with other
progressive reforms.
7. Identify the different types of city government management programs that
were initiated by progressive politicians and government reformers.
8. Why was Wisconsin called "The Laboratory of Democracy?"
9. What changes did reformers bring about in the area of child labor?
10. Explain how initiative, referendum, and recall were reforms to give
citizens a greater input into the workings of their government.
11. How was the 17th Amendment typical of progressive reforms?
12. Imagine you are a muckraking journalist TODAY. A magazine publisher
has asked you to submit a list of story ideas for upcoming issues. What
wrongdoings would you like to probe?
* Progressivism
* Florence Kelley
* prohibition
* Women's Christian
Temperance Union (WCTU)
* Frances Willard
* Carry Nation
* Anti-Saloon League
* "Demon Rum"
* Henry George
* Edward Bellamy
* muckraker
* Frederick Winslow Taylor
* Principles of Scientific
Management (1911)
* city commissioner system
* "gas and water socialism"
* "Fighting Bob" La Follette
* "The Laboratory of
Democracy"
* Keating-Owen Act (1916)
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*
*
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Bunting v. Oregon (1917)
Louis D. Brandeis
initiative
referndum
recall
Australian Ballot
17th. Amendment (1913)
* council-manager system
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Textbook --> pp. 501 - 504.
1. What jobs did most African American women and married and
unmarried immigrant women generally hole at the end of the 19c?
2. What kinds of job opportunities prompted more women to
complete high school at the end of the 19c?
3. Describe the major changes in the role and status of women
during the Progressive era.
4. How did a college education effect the lives of those women who
attended these institutions of higher learning in the late 1800s?
5. Identify the clubs and organizations which helped to politically
organize women during the Progressive period.
6. What were the three approaches women tried in order to win the
right to vote? What obstacles were placed in the way of achieving
this goal?
7. What methods used by women reforms of the Progressive era are
still methods that are used by modern-day reform and social
protest movements?
* Maria Mitchell
* "Seven Sisters"
* "social housekeeping"
* suffrage
* Susan B. Anthony
* National American Woman
Suffrage Association
(NAWSA)
* National Association of
Colored Women (NACW)
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Textbook --> pp. 505 - 511.
1. Identify three ways in which Theodore Roosevelt modernized the
role of the American president.
2. What role did Roosevelt play in settling the Anthracite Coal Strike
of 1902?
3. Explain Roosevelt's theory regarding "trustbusting."
4. How did the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle in 1906
affect the safety of the meat that people eat today?
5. Identify the major laws passed during Teddy Roosevelt's
administration which effectively expanded the regulatory powers
of the federal government.
6. Discuss Roosevelt's program for the conservation of the nation's
natural resources. Identify the sources of opposition to this
program.
7. What was Teddy Roosevelt's position on the problems of African
Americans in the America of the early 20c?
8. How did Roosevelt's use of experts help him tackle political,
economic, or environmental problems?
*
*
*
*
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle (1906)
"bully pulpit"
Square Deal
* "Trust-Buster"
* Elkins Act (1903)
* Meat Inspection Act (1906)
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*
Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)
John Muir
Gifford Pinchot
conservation
National Reclamation
(Newlands) Act (1902)
* The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
* The only good Indian is a dead
Indian!
Textbook --> pp. 512 - 515.
1. How was President Taft physically as well as politically different
from Teddy Roosevelt, even though both were Republicans?
2. Which of Roosevelt's policies did President Taft not support?
Why not?
3. Why did his support of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff cause so many
problems for President Taft?
4. Why did Taft's appointment of Richard Ballinger anger
conservationists?
5. What role did Speaker of the House, "Uncle Joe" Cannon play in
the fragmentation of the Republican Party by 1910? What other
issues aided in this fragmentation?
6. What were the key issues of the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
platform in 1912?
7. Create a CHART which contrasts the views toward big business
of the four major candidates for president in 1912.
* William Howard Taft
* Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
* Richard A. Ballinger
* The Fight for Conservation
* Joseph Cannon
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*
*
"old guard"
New Nationalism
Bull Moose (Progressive) Party
Don't interfere when your
enemy is destroying
himself!
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Textbook --> pp. 516 - 521.
1. What was President Wilson's view of the role of government?
How did it differ from Teddy Roosevelt's view? [Create a VENN
DIAGRAM to illustrate your answer].
2. Compare Wilson's personal background to that of President
Roosevelt.
3. What were the provisions of the Clayton Antitrust Act? How
did it benefit labor?
4. What were the arguments of the proponents and opponents of
government deregulation in the early 20c?
5. What was the purpose of the creation of the Federal Trade
Commission?
6. Why was the 16th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
passed?
7. How does the Federal Reserve System work? Why is it
considered to be one of the important domestic achievements
of Woodrow Wilson's administration?
8. Identify the different strategies used by women in their fight
for suffrage.
9. If you were a suffragist in the early 20c, which organization
would you have joined and why? --> the National American
Woman's Suffrage Association or the National Woman's
Party?
10. Why did Woodrow Wilson oppose women's suffrage?
11. What actions taken by President Wilson disappointed civil
rights advocates?
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Woodrow Wilson
New Freedom
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Federal Trade Act (1914)
Federal Trade Commission
(FTC)
* Underwood Tariff of 1913
* 16th. Amendment
* deregulation
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Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Federal Reserve System
graduated income tax
Carrie Chapman Catt
* National Woman's Party
* Emmeline Pankhurst
* 19th. Amendment