Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
1901-1912
Chapter 28
1.
What was progressivism and why did it arise?
2.
Early reform writers that kindled the flames of change – State the author and
theme.
Wealth against Commonwealth (1894) Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) –
How the Other Half Lives (1890) –
3.
Muckrakers –Who were they and what did they want? Where they successful?
4.
State the author and define the themes of the following books/ articles
“The Shame of the Cities” – (1902)
Frenzied Finance – (1905) –
The Treason of the Senate (1906) –
Following the Color Line (1908) –
The Bitter Cry of Children (1906) –
5.
Political Reforms – For each reform define it and its purpose and explain on
what level of government if any it was implemented (local, state, federal) –
direct primary elections –
initiative –
referendum –
recall
corrupt-practices acts –
Australian ballot –
Direct Election of Senator –
Women’s suffrage –
city-manager system –
6. Identify the reason the following progressive governors were significant:
Robert LaFollette – (Wisc.)
Hiram Johnson – (Calif)
Charles Evan Hughes
Women Suffrage
7.
8.
What areas of reform were women most concerned with?
Identify these groups, people or court cases –
National Consumers League –
Women’s Bureau –
Florence Kelley
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union –
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire –
Muller v.Oregon (1908)
Lochner v. NY (1905) –
Teddy Roosevelt – The Square Deal
* Did Teddy Roosevelt make good on his promises of a square deal for all Americans?
9.
10.
Square Deal – What was it?
Labor: Define the following incidences or agencies. Any limits on how far these
reforms went?
Anthracite Coal Strike (1902) – What happened and how did TR respond?
Why was the outcome significant?
Department of Commerce and Labor – (1903) –
Bureau of Corporations –
11.
Corporations: Define the following acts or concepts concerning the square deal
and control of corporations. Any limits to how far these reforms reached?
Elkins Act (1903) –
Hepburn Act (1906) –
Good Trust vs. Bad Trusts –
Northern Securities Co. (1904) –
J.P. Morgan’s US Steel and Tenn. Coal Co. deal (1907) –
12.
Consumers: Define the following acts or concepts concerning the square deal and
protection for American consumers. Any limits to how far these reforms reached?
The Jungle –
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) –
13.
Conservation: Define the following acts concerning conserving American
natural resources. Any limits to how far these reforms reached?
* (Carey Act of 1894)Newlands Act of 1902 –
Expansion of Federal Reserve lands –
“multiple-use resource management” –
14.
What was the basic cause of the Panic of 1907? Why did business blame
Roosevelt and how did TR respond? What was the result?
15.
Currency reform: Define –
Aldrich-Vreeland Act (1908) –
* Federal Reserve Act (1913) –
16.
Assess TR’s legacy.
William H. Taft – Politically Inept
17.
William Taft - Characterize his personality.
18.
* Who were the insurgents? Old Guard?
19.
Dollar Diplomacy – Define this policy and analyze its effectiveness.
20.
How effective was Taft in the area of breaking trusts and looking out for
the consumer in tariff legislation and Conservation?
21.
What two issues drove a wedge between TR (insurgents) Republicans and Taft
(Old Guard) Republicans and led TR to run as the Bull Moose Party candidate in
1912?
22.
New Nationalism – What was this belief of TR’s in the election of 1912?