UNIT 3: Progressivism and Imperialism (1896-1917)
TIME FRAME: (3 weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date November 12th Binder, Terms, AP PARTS
documents PACE YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY- LAST WEEK OF UNIT PLAN SHOULD BE STRICTLY
REVIEW!!
Big Picture:
From 1890 to 1918, the United States became increasingly active and aggressive in world affairs. The Progressive
movement partially succeeded in improving life for average Americans by curbing big business, making the
government more responsive to the will of the people, and enacting social welfare legislation.
Themes:
Diversity, American identity, culture, demographic changes, economic transformations, environment, politics and
citizenship, reform, globalization, war and diplomacy
Required Readings:
Chapters 24 (p. 690-696), 21, 22, 23 in Divine
Chapter 12 in Zinn: “The Empire and the People” (due October 24th)- First grade of 2nd Quarter
Chapter 13 in Zinn: “The Socialist Challenge” (EXTRA CREDIT/ OPTIONAL) Due October 31st
Primary Sources:
Will be uploaded to website. Complete “APPARTS” FOR EACH- PRINT OFF ONCE THEY ARE POSTED!
Special Activities: Complete a Core Structure Sheet for each
FRQs:
1) How successful were progressive reforms during the period 1890 to 1915 with respect to the all of the
following?
 Industrial conditions
 Urban life
 Politics
2) Summarize the reasons for US involvement in the Caribbean and Latin America and its impact on selected
nations and people.
3) Assess the social, economic and political ramification of US expansion between 1867-1914.
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TERMS TO KNOW
new manifest destiny”
Monroe Doctrine
Maximilian of Mexico
Alaska Purchase Treaty
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890)
Social Darwinism, “survival of the fittest”
Josiah Strong, Our Country, 1886
“yellow journalism,” William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
Pan-Americanism
Samoan Crisis, Pago Pago
Venezuela Boundary Dispute, 1895-96
President Grover Cleveland
Queen Liliuokalani and Hawaii
Cuba
reconcentration
“Butcher” Weyler
explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
Spanish-American War
Teller Amendment
Philippines
Commodore George Dewey
Battle of Manila Bay
Emilio Aguinaldo
“Rough Riders”
Treaty of Paris, 1899
Anti-Imperialist League
Insular cases
Platt Amendment
“splendid little war”
Philippines Insurrection
William H. Taft, Philippine Commission
Open Door Policy
“spheres of influence”
Open Door Note
Secretary of State John Hay
Boxer Rebellion
President McKinley assassinated
President Theodore Roosevelt
“Big Stick” policy
Panama Canal
“gunboat diplomacy”
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Venezuela Crisis, 190s
“Colossus of the North”
Russo-Japanese War
Treaty of Portsmouth
San Francisco School Board Incident
“Gentleman’s Agreement,” 1906
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“Great White Fleet”
Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
President Woodrow Wilson
Panama Canal Tolls Act
Jones Act, 1916
Jones Act, 1917
“Moral Diplomacy”
Mexican Revolution
“Pancho” Villa
General John J. Pershing
Greenback Labor Party
Populists
Mugwumps
Progressives
plutocracy
Muckrakers
Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Jane Addams, Hull House
Florence Kelley
Muller v. Oregon, 1906
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
Child Labor Act, 1916
Robert La Follette
“Wisconsin Experiment”
direct primary
initiative, referendum, recall
direct election of senators
17th Amendment
Republican “Old Guard”
Australian Ballot
commission system
President Theodore Roosevelt
“Square Deal”
Anthracite Coal Strike
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Corporations
Northern Securities Co.
trust busting
Hepburn Act, 1906
Meat Inspection Act, 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
Gifford Pinchot
Panic of 1907
President William H. Taft
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
“Uncle” Joe Cannon
“New Nationalism”
98. “Bull-Moose” Party
99. Election of 1912
100. “New Freedom”
101. President Woodrow Wilson
102. Eugene Debs, Socialist party
103. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
104. 16th Amendment
105. Federal Reserve Act, 1913
106. Federal Trade Commission, 1914
107. Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914
108. Lochner v. U.S., 1905
109. Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 1923
110. Schenck v. U.S.
111. Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Francis Willard
112. Anti-Saloon League
113. 18th Amendment
114. Volstead Act, 1920
115. National American Women’s Suffrage Association
116. 19th Amendment
117. Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
118. Chicago Race Riot, 1919
119. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
120. Booker T. Washington
121. W. E. B. Du Bois
122. Niagara Movement
123. “talented tenth”
124. NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
125. D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation
126. Ku Klux Klan
127. eugenics