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UNIT 3 1890-1920 MODERN AMERICA EMERGES
CHAPTER 9 The Progressive Era 1890-1920
Chapter Objective
To explain how the progressive movement managed to increase the power of government to regulate business
and to protect society from the injustices fostered by big business.
SECTION 1 The Origins of Progressivism p.306-312
1. Explain the four goals of progressivism
2. Summarize progressive efforts to clean up government
3. Identify progressive efforts to reform state government, protect workers, and reform elections
SECTION 2 Women in Public Life p.313-316
1. Describe the growing presence of women in the workforce at the turn of the 20th century
2. Identify leaders of the woman suffrage movement
3. Explain how woman suffrage was achieved
SECTION 3 Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal p.317-325
1. Describe the events of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency
2. Explain how Roosevelt used the power of the presidency to regulate business
3. Identify laws passed to protect public health and the environment
4. Summarize Roosevelt’s stand on civil rights
SECTION 4 Progressivism Under Taft p.328-331
1. Summarize the events of the Taft presidency
2. Explain the division in the Republican Party
3. Describe the election of 1912
SECTION 5 Wilson’s New Freedom p.332-337
1. Describe Woodrow Wilson’s background and the progressive reforms of his presidency
2. List the steps leading to woman suffrage
3. Explain the limits of Wilson’s progressivism
CH.9 The Progressive Era
9.1 P. 306-312, OBJ. 1-3, WORK SHEET
9.2 P. 313-316, OBJ. 1-3, WORK SHEET
9.3 P. 317-327, OBJ. 1-4, Cornell Notes
9.4 P. 328-331, OBJ. 1-3, Cornell Notes
9.5 P. 332-337, OBJ. 1-3, Cornell Notes
NOTES
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Chapter 9 The Progressive Era 1890-1920
Section 1 pp.306-312 The Origins Of Progressivism
A. As you read about the era of reform, identify people, goals, and successes of the reform movements.(1pt.
ea.)
Social Reforms
People/groups
Goals
Successes
1. Social welfare
reform movement
2. Moral reform
movement
3. Economic reform
movement
4. Movement for
industrial efficiency
5. Movement to
protect workers
Political Reforms
6. Movement to
reform government
People/groups
Goals
Successes
7. State reform of
big business
8. Movement for
election reform
B. Define the following. (1pt. ea.)
Progressive movement
Prohibition
Scientific management
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
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Chapter 9 The Progressive Era 1890-1920
Section 2 pp.313-316 Women in Public Life
A. As you read answer the questions in the boxes. (1pt. ea.)
What types of jobs were women in each group likely to hold?
1. Lower Class
2. Middle or Upper Class
3. African American
4. Immigrant
5. How did educational opportunities for middle and upper class women change?
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6. How did these new opportunities affect the lives of middle and upper class women?
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7. What three strategies were adopted by suffragists to win the vote?
a.
b.
c.
8. What results did each strategy produce?
a.
b.
c.
B. Explain the meaning and importance of the following. (1pt. ea.)
9. NACW
10. Susan B. Anthony
11. Suffrage
12. NAWS
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TITLE: Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
REVIEW
NOTES
1. Describe the events of Theodore Roosevelt’s Presidency 1900-1908
CH.9 S.3 PP. 317-325
A ROUGH-RIDING PRESIDENT
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle novel 1906
Roosevelt’s Rise
background
Rough Riders
teddy bear
The Modern Presidency
In politics
model
national welfare
bully pulpit
Square Deal.
TITLE: Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
CH.9 S.3 PP. 317-325
REVIEW
NOTES
2. Explain how Roosevelt used the power of the presidency to regulate business.
Trustbusting
USING FEDERAL POWER
trusts
unfair business
practices
Sherman Antitrust
Act,1890
President Roosevelt
Northern Securities
Company
1902 Coal Strike
new principle
progressive belief
Railroad Regulation
Interstate Commerce Act
Elkins Act 1903
Hepburn Act 1906
TITLE: Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
CH.9 S.3 PP. 317-325
REVIEW
NOTES
3. Identify laws passed to protect public health and the environment.
Regulating Foods And
HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Drugs
laws and policies
1906 Meat Inspection
Act
compromise
Pure Food And Drug Act
1906
progressive belief
Conservation and
Natural Resources
late 19th century
Conservation Measures
primary concern
Gifford Pinchot
conservation
National Reclamation
Act (Newlands Act) 1902
precedent established
TITLE: Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
REVIEW
CH.9 S.3 PP. 317-325
NOTES
4. Summarize Roosevelt’s stand on civil rights.
ROOSEVELT AND CIVIL RIGHTS
Roosevelt /
most progressives
supported
1906 angered African
Americans
symbolic gesture
B.T.Washington ctiticized
accommodation
Du Bois
1903 The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois and other advocates
1905
1909
NAACP
Progressive Movement
TITLE: Progressivism Under Taft
CH.9 S.4 PP. 328-331
REVIEW
1. Summarize the events of the Taft presidency. 1908-1912
Gifford Pinchot
NOTES
Roosevelt left office
TAFT BECOMES PRESIDENT
1908 election
Taft Stumbles
The Payne–Aldrich Tariff
Payne Bill
Aldrich Bill
compromise Payne-Aldrich
Tariff
made his difficulties worse
TITLE: Progressivism Under Taft
REVIEW
2. Explain the division of the Republican Party
CH.9 S.4 PP. 328-331
NOTES
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SPLITS
Taft’s cautious nature
two wings
Problems Within The
Party
Joseph Cannon
Reform-minded Republicans
succeeded in March 1910
midterm elections of 1910
Voter concerns
Democrats gained control
The Bull Moose Party
“New Nationalism,” speech
1912
Taft incumbent
Rep. convention 1912
progressives
The party’s platform
split in Republican ranks
Presidential election
TITLE: Progressivism Under Taft
REVIEW
3. Describe the election of 1912
DEMOCRATS WIN IN
1912
Governor Woodrow Wilson
Democratic presidential
nominee
New Freedom
election offered several
choices
Roosevelt and Wilson
Roosevelt
Debs
Wilson
Results
Roosevelt
reform claimed the real
victory
Wilson could claim a
mandate
CH.9 S.4 PP. 328-331
NOTES
TITLE: Wilson’s New Freedom
CH.9 S.5 PP. 332-337
REVIEW
NOTES
1. Describe Woodrow Wilson’s background and the progressive reforms of his presidency.
Wilson Wins Financial Reforms
Wilson’s Background
Southern background
Youth
1910
As President: “New
Freedom”
“Without the watchful . . . resolute interference of the government, there can be no fair play between
individuals and such powerful institutions as the trusts.”
SUCCESSES
Two Key Antitrust
Measures
Clayton Antitrust Act 1914
Federal Trade Commission
Act
“watchdog” agency
A New Tax System
Underwood Act, 1913
Wilson denounced lobbyists
Federal Income Tax
Sixteenth Amendment
1917-Present
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve Act of
1913
By 1923
TITLE: Wilson’s New Freedom
REVIEW
2. List the steps leading to women’s suffrage.
Women Win Suffrage
women
1910 Federal voting rights
three developments
hope for success
Carrie Chapman Catt
Local Suffrage Battles
Two Massachusetts organizations
Europe
Britain
Catt: The National Movement
Concentrated on five tactics
Lucy Burns and Alice Paul
suffrage inevitable
Patriotic American women
Nineteenth Amendment
August 1920
CH.9 S.5 PP. 332-337
NOTES
TITLE: Wilson’s New Freedom
REVIEW
3. Explain the limits for Wilson’s progressivism
The Limits of
Progressivism
racial matters
CH.9 S.5 PP. 332-337
NOTES
expanded racial segregation
Wilson And Civil Rights
won support
once in office
anti-lynching
segregation
cabinet
felt betrayed
November 12, 1914
William Monroe Trotter
Wilson
Refusal to extend civil rights to African Americans pointed to the limits of progressivism under his admin.
The Twilight Of
Progressivism
outbreak of World War I