Give Me Liberty! Chapter 18 Reading Guide – The Progressive Era, 1900-1916
Chapter 18 Introduction
AN URBAN AGE AND CONSUMER SOCIETY
 Farms and Cities (726-728)
 The Muckrakers (728)
 Immigration as a Global Process (728-731)
 The Immigrant Quest for Freedom (731-732)
 Consumer Freedom (732-734)
 The Working Woman (734-735)
 The Rise of Freedom (735-736)
 The Promise of Abundance (736-737)
 An American Standard of Living (737-738)
AN URBAN AGE AND CONSUMER SOCIETY QUESTION:
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Why was the city such a central element in Progressive America?
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VARIETIES OF PROGRESSIVISM
 Industrial Freedom (738-739)
 The Socialist Presence (739-742)
 The Gospel of Debs (742-743)
 AFL and IWW (743)
 The New Immigrants on Strike (743-745)
 Labor and Civil Liberties (745-746)
 The New Feminism (746)
 The Rise of Personal Freedom (747)
 The Birth Control Movement (747-748)
 Native American Progressivism (748-749)
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VARIETIES OF PROGRESSIVISM QUESTION:
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How did the labor and women’s movements challenge the nineteenth century
meanings of American freedom?
THE POLITICS OF PROGRESSIVISM
 Effective Freedom (749)
 State and Local Reformers (749-750)
 Progressive Democracy (750-751)
 Government by Expert (751-752)
 Jane Addams and Hull House (752)
 “Spearheads for Reform” (752-753)
 The Campaign for Woman Suffrage (753-754)
 Maternalist Reform (754-756)
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 The Idea of Economic Citizenship (756)
THE POLITICS OF PROGRESSIVISM QUESTION:
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In what ways did progressivism include both democratic and anti-democratic impulses?
THE PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS
 Theodore Roosevelt (757)
 Roosevelt and Economic Regulation (757-758)
 The Conservation Movement (758-759)
 Taft in Office (759)
 The Election of 1912 (760)
 New Freedom and New Nationalism (760-761)
 Wilson’s First Term (761-762)
 The Expanding Role of Government (762)
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THE PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS QUESTION:
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How did the Progressive presidents foster the rise of the national-state?
Chapter Review Questions
1. Identify the main groups and ideas that drove the Progressive movement.
2. Explain how immigration to the United States in this period was part of a global movement of peoples.
3. Describe how Fordism transformed American industrial and consumer society.
4. Socialism was a rising force across the globe in the early twentieth century. How successful was the movement
in the United States?
5. Explain why the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) grew so rapidly and aroused so much opposition.
6. What did striking workers mean when they declared that they wanted “bread and roses, too”?
7. What did Progressive era feminists want to change in society, and how did their actions help to spearhead
broader reforms?
8. Explain how and why Progressivism was an international movement
9. How did each Progressive president view the role of the federal government?
10. How democratic was the Progressive movement?
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Key Terms and People
muckrakers
child labor
Ellis Island and Angel Island
Henry Ford
Eugene Debs
Mexican Immigration
Rerum Novarum
“scientific management”
Industrial Workers of the World
“New Feminism”
birth control movement
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sixteenth Amendment
New Freedom
Fordism
Bill Haywood
Theodore Roosevelt
New Nationalism
Muller v. Oregon
muckraker
Society of American Indians
“effective freedom”
Federal Trade Commission
Jane Addams
Fredrick Taylor
Fordism
American standard of living
John Muir
Margaret Sanger
Robert M. La Follette
workmen’s compensation laws
Roosevelt and conservatism
Federal Reserve System
Louis Brandeis
John Mitchell
Upton Sinclair
maternalist reform
Muller v. Oregon
settlement house
Federal Reserve Act
Seventeenth Amendment
Angel Island
Appeal to Reason
coal miners’ strike of 1902
Pure Food and Drug Act
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