Chapter 28 Focus Questions:
Essay question: Assess the impact of progressive reforms in each of the following areas of American life during the
period 1901-1912:
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Political Reform
*Conservation of Resources
* Business Regulation
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The real heart of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to use the government to do what?
How would the American population best be described in 1900? (multiple answers)
Who was Thorstein Veblen and what did he mean by “conspicuous consumption?”
How important did progressives see the role of government in addressing the problems of American society in the
early 20th century?
What groups served as inspiration to the progressive reformers?
What religious movement was closely linked to progressivism?
Why did President Roosevelt refer to certain writers as “muckrakers?”
What did each of the following muckrakers write about: Lincoln Steffens; Ida Tarbell; Ray Stannard Baker; David
G. Phillips; Upton Sinclair.
Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to make the
public aware of what?
What was the leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor?
What groups made up progressive reformers? (4)
What did the 17th amendment call for?
According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy’s ills was what?
What were the prime goals of earnest progressives?
What reasons did activists, scholars, and politicians give about why socialism did not take hold in America? (4)
How were the settlement houses and women’s club movements crucial centers of female progressive activity?
Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of what?
What issues were addressed by women in the progressive movement? (4)
The progressive-inspired city-manager system of government was designed to remove politics from what?
What was at issue in the case of Muller v. Oregon (1908) and how did the Supreme Court rule?
What catastrophe occurred at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York and what progressive reform resulted?
Why was the case of Lochner v. New York considered a setback for progressives and labor advocates?
Activists in the anti-liquor campaigns saw saloons and alcohol as intimately linked with what officials and who
were they paid off by?
What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt’s reform proposals and what issues did he champion (4)?
How did Roosevelt get involved in the anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and how was the strike ended?
What reform was achieved by enactment of the Elkins Act and the Hepburn Act?
What was Roosevelt’s view of large corporate trusts?
What was the real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt’s assault on trusts (he was trying to prove what about the federal
government)?
What was the subject of Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, and what laws resulted?
When Sinclair wrote his book he had intended to draw attention to what issue?
How did the Newlands Act contribute to the conservation to scarce water in the American West?
What action was taken by Roosevelt to conserve timberland?
Describe what multiple-use conservationists generally believed.
What is the difference between the conservationists and the preservationists and how was their fight over the
Hetch Hetchy resolved?
How did TR weaken himself during his successful bid for election in 1904?
How did the Panic of 1907 begin and who did powerful financial interests try to blame for the poor economy?
How is Teddy most accurately described regarding reform?
How did Teddy change to office of the presidency?
39) Who did Roosevelt endorse for the Republican presidential nomination in 1908 and against who did that man run
against?
40) Describe the character and personality of William Howard Taft and contrast his style to Roosevelt’s?
41) What was Taft’s foreign policy called, where did he focus his attention, and how successful were his efforts to
promote the Open Door policy and the Roosevelt Corollary?
42) What was Taft’s record as a trustbuster, what was the “rule of reason” and how was his view of trust-busting
different from Roosevelt’s?
43) Why did Roosevelt decide to run for the presidency in 1912?
44) Despite winning the few primary elections held in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt failed to win the Republican
nomination from President Taft at the party convention. How did Roosevelt react to his defeat?