Unit XV – The Progressive Era (Chapters 28-29)
Objectives:
 Discuss the origin, leadership, and goals of progressivism
 Describe the major role that women played in progressive social reform, and explain why progressivism meshed with many
goals of the women’s rights movement
 Tell how President Roosevelt began applying progressive principles to the national economy, including his attention to
conservation and consumer protection
 Describe how Roosevelt led a progressive revolt against Taft that openly divided the Republican party
 Discuss the key issues of the pivotal 1912 election and the basic principles of Wilsonian progressivism
 Describe how Wilson successfully reformed the “triple wall of privilege”
 State the basic features of Wilson’s moralistic foreign policy, and explain how, despite his intentions, it drew him into intervention
in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America
 Describe America’s initial neutral response to World War I, Wilson’s increasingly tough policies on Germany’s submarine warfare,
and the sharp political divisions over the prospect of American entry into the war
 Explain how Wilson’s progressive domestic agenda and provisionally successful maintenance of American neutrality enabled
him to win a narrow victory in 1916 over still-divided Republicans
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7.
8.
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffens
Jane Addams
Ida Tarbell
Robert M. La Follette
Upton Sinclair
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings
Bryan
9. William Howard Taft
10. Initiative
11. Referendum
12. Recall
13. “Separate spheres”
14. “Dry” and “wet”
states (or counties)
15. Trustbusting
16. Conservation
17. Preservationism
18. Dollar diplomacy
19. “Rule of reason”
20. Muckrakers
21. How the Other Half
Lives
22. The Shame of the
Cities
23. Seventeenth
Amendment
24. Eighteenth
Amendment
25. Women’s Trade Union
League
26. National Consumers
League
27. Elkins Act
28. Hepburn Act
29. Northern Securities
Case
30. Muller v. Oregon
31. Triangle Shirtwaist fire
32. Square Deal
33. The Jungle
34. Meat Inspection Act
35. Pure Food and Drug
Act
36. U.S. Forest Service
37. Ballinger-Pinchot
Affair
38. Old Guard
39. Victoriano Huerta
40. Venustiano Carranza
41. Kaiser Wilhelm II
42. New Nationalism
43. New Freedom
44. Progressive party
45. Bull Moose
46. Sixteenth
Amendment
47. Federal Reserve Act
48. Federal Trade
Commission Act
49. Clayton Act
50. Federal Farm Loan
Act
51. La Follette’s
Seaman’s Act
52. Workingmen’s
Compensation Act
53. ABC Powers
54. Sarajevo
55. Central Powers
56. Allies
57. Lusitania
58. U-boat
59. Sussex pledge