Unit Overview: Progressive Era, Imperialism & WWI
Chapters 21, 20.2, 22 & 23
These are some of the people, places and things you need to know by the end of the unit. Do
not rely solely on the list below.
Progressivism
Lochner v. New York
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
Social Gospel movement
Walter Rauschenbush
Socialism
Eugene V. Debs
Ida B. Tarbell, History of the Standard
Oil Co.
Muckrakers
Jane Addams, Hull House
Suffrage Movement, Alice Paul and
Carrie Chapman Catt
Margaret Sanger
Robert La Follette
Direct primary, Australian ballot
Initiatives, referendum, and recall
Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire
D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation
Niagara Movement
NAACP, The Crisis
Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Redeemers
White supremacy campaigns
Ida B. Wells
Booker T. Washington
Atlanta Compromise (1895)
Tuskegee Institute
Williams v. Mississippi (1898)
W.E.B. Du Bois, “talented tenth”
The Niagara Movement
Theodore Roosevelt
Conservation
John Mitchell, United Mine Workers
Hepburn Act (1906)
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
The Square Deal
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
William Howard Taft
Pinchot-Ballinger Affair
New Nationalism
Election of 1912, Bull Moose Party
Woodrow Wilson
New Freedom
Mann Elkins Act (1910)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Federal Trade Commission (1914)
Underwood Tariff (1913)
Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
Seventeenth Amendment (1913)
Imperialism
Alabama
Secretaries of State: William H.
Seward, Elihu Root, John Hay
Seward’s Folly
Josiah Strong, Our Country
Pan-Americanism and James G. Blaine
Queen Liliuokalani
Cleveland and Hawaii
Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of
Seapower upon History (1890)
Venezuela boundary dispute (1895)
“White Man’s Burden”
Yellow journalism
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph
Pulitzer
Maine
de Lome letter
Teller Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Riders
Commodore George Dewey
Battle of Manila Bay
Battle of San Juan Hill
Annexation of Hawaii
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Platt Amendment
Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico,
Guantanamo Bay
“The American Lake”
Jingoism
Insular cases (1901)
Emilio Aguinaldo
Anti-Imperialist League
Philippine insurrection
Panama revolution
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal Zone
Venezuelan crisis (1902)
“Spheres of Influence”
Open Door policy
Boxer Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War, Treaty of
Portsmouth
Gentlemen’s Agreement
“Great White Fleet”
“Big Stick” diplomacy
Secretary of State John Hay
“Dollar Diplomacy”
“Missionary” or “Moral” Diplomacy
Mexican Revolution
Pancho Villa
General John Pershing
World War I
Triple Entente, Triple Alliance
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Allied and Central Powers
Lusitania
Zimmermann Note
Sussex Pledge
Election of 1916
Gen. John J. Pershing
Selective Service Act (1917)
American Expeditionary Force
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
War Revenue Bills
War Industries Board (Bernard Baruch)
Lever Food and Fuel Control Act (Herbert
Hoover)
Railroad Control Act (William McAdoo)
National War Labor Board
“Great Migration”
National American Woman Suffrage
Association (NAWSA)
Eighteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Committee on Public Information
Creel Committee
“One Hundred Percent Americanism”
Espionage Act (1917)
Sedition Act (1918)
Schenk v. U.S. (1918)
Eugene V. Debs
Fourteen Points
Paris Peace Conference
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Big Four
David Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau
League of Nations
Article X
Henry Cabot Lodge
“Irreconcilables”
“Reservationists”
Race riots
Labor strikes
Boston Police Strike
Red Scare
Palmer raids
Sacco and Vanzetti
Unit Overview: Progressive Era, Imperialism & WWI
Chapters 21, 20.2, 22 & 23
The Progressive Era
The social, economic, political, and intellectual roots of progressivism and why it emerged when it did
The main goals of the various groups in the Progressive movement and their successes and failures in achieving
political, social, economic, and moral reform
The similarities and differences among the Populist, Progressive, and Socialist movements
The problems which women and minorities faced in this era and their success in overcoming these problems
Supreme Court interpretations and changing economic and social conditions from 1890 to 1920
Compare and contrast the personalities, programs, and administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft,
and Woodrow Wilson
The political, social, and economic impact of the Progressive era on American society
Struggles within the political parties from 1900 to 1912
Imperialism
The roles of ideology and culture in American expansionism and imperialism; the motivation for American
imperialism and how American imperialism compared to European imperialism
America’s relationship with other countries in the Western Hemisphere in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; an
evaluation of those policies
America’s relationship with Asia, including China, the Philippines, and Japan, in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries; an evaluation of those policies
How we came to acquire Alaska and Hawaii; the extent to which William Seward’s vision for an expanded United
States come to pass by the end of the century
The underlying and immediate causes of the Spanish American War and the provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 1898
The debate between anti-imperialists and imperialists over acquiring an empire; why the expansionists prevailed
An evaluation of United States’ foreign policy towards smaller nations
Roosevelt’s, Taft’s, and Wilson’s foreign policies
World War I
The reasons why Europe broke out into war in 1914
The reasons why America tried to stay neutral; why those attempts failed
Why America entered the war
The impact of the war on America’s economy
The role of the federal government during the war
Civil liberties during and after the war
How the entry of the US influenced the outcome of the war
The war’s consequences for the nation
Racial and political unrest after the war
The Treaty of Versailles: what was in it, how it set the scene for WWII, and why the US rejected it