Homework Sheet Unit 12:
Progressivism and WWI
Date
Mon
2/11
Class Activities
 TR and Progressivism
 Finish Progressivism
Tues
2/14
 Taft
 Wilson
Block
 Finish Progressivism
2/13
 Work on DBQ's
Fri
Homework Due In Class Today
 Chapter 31 682-700
 Documents 1-5
 Chapter 32 703-713
 Documents 6 and 7

 Causes of WWI
 Chapter 32 713-720
Tues
 WWI
 Chapter 33 722-733
2/19
 Receive Unit 12 Review Sheet
 Document 8
2/15
 Chapter 33 733-744
Block
2/20
 WWI
 Documents 9 and 10
 DUE: Plan for Assigned DBQ (will receive on 2/13)
 Full Outline of Paragraphs and which docs
will be used in each
Friday
2/22
 Unit 12 Test
 Receive Unit 13 HW
 Unit 12 Review
Sources Used this Unit:
 Pageant (Your Textbook): Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American
Pageant: A History of the Republic. Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin. 11th Edition.
Unit 12: Progressivism at Home and Abroad + WWI
Content Covered
Progressivism:
Roots of Progressivism in America; Muckrakers; Social Issues;
Politics:
Political Progressivism; City Progressivism; Roosevelt’s Square Deal; Trustbusting; The Jungle;
National Parks; Taft; Taft Splits the Republican Party; Taft vs. Roosevelt; Bull Moose Campaign
of 1912; Wilsonian Progressivism; Changes in Foreign Policy; Lodge-Wilson feud
Economics:
Panic of 1907; Dollar Diplomacy; Wilson and the Tariff; Wilson Battles the Banks; War
Economy;
Society in America:
Immigration from Mexico; WWI Propaganda; Espionage and Sedition Acts; Homefront during
the War; Suffrage; The Draft;
Foreign Policy:
WWI Begins in Europe; Neutrality; Lusitania; America Declares War; Wilson’s 14 Points;
WWI; Treaty of Versailles; America’s Part in the Failure of the Treaty of Versailles;
 American Pageant: Chapters 31-33
Primary Reading
Secondary Reading
Muckraking:
1. Exposing the Meat Packers (1906) (excerpts from The Jungle) – Document 32-A-1 TAS V2
(200-202)
2. Child Labor in the Coal Mines (1906) – Document 32-C-2 TAS V2 (209-211)
Conservation:
3. Roosevelt Saves the Forests (1907) – Document 32-D-1 TAS V2 (213-214)
Suffrage:
4. Senator Robert Owen Supports Women (1910) – Document 32-E-1 TAS V2 (219-221)
5. A Woman Assails Women’s Suffrage (1910) – Document 32-E-2 TAS V2 (221-223)
Trusts:
6. J.P. Morgan Denies a Money Trust (1913) – Documents 33-C-2 TAS V2 (233-235)
7. William McAdoo Exposes the Bankers (c.1913) – Documents 33-C-3 TAS V2 (235-236)
World War I:
8. George Creel Spreads Fear Propaganda (c.1918) – Document 34-C-1 TAS V2 (257-258)
9. A Doughboy Describes the Fighting Front (1918) – Document 34-D-2 TAS V2 (266-269)
10. Woodrow Wilson Unveils his 14 Points (1918) AND Theodore Roosevelt Blunts Wilson’s
Points (1918) – Documents 34-C-2&3 TAS V2 (258-263)
Chapter 31: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Charles Evans Hughes
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffens
II.
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
9.
10.
recall
conservation
III.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Forest Reserve Act
Muckrakers
Seventeenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment
Elkins Act
IV.
Essay Questions:
26.
What caused the progressive movement, and how did it get under way?
27.
What did the progressive movement accomplish at the local, state, and national levels?
5.
6.
7.
8.
11.
12.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Ida Tarbell
David G. Phillips
Robert M. La Follete
Hiram Johnson
initiative
referendum
Hepburn Act
Northern Securities Act
Newland Act
dollar diplomacy
Payne-Aldrich Act
Ballinger-Pinochet affair
28.
Why were women such an important component of the progressive crusade? How were their
concerns reflected in the issues and laws of the time?
29.
Discuss Roosevelt’s support for conservation and consumer protection. Why were these among
the most successful progressive achievements?
30.
What caused the Taft-Roosevelt split, and how did it reflect the growing division between
“Old Guard” and “progressive” Republicans?
Chapter 32: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Herbert Croly
Arsene Pujo
Louis D. Brandeis
Victoriano Huerta
II.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
New Nationalism
New Freedom
Workingman’s Compensation Act
Adamson Act
Underwood Tariff Bill
Sixteenth Amendment
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission Act
Clayton Act
III.
Essay Questions:
5.
6.
7.
8.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Venustiano Carranza
Pancho Villa
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Charles Evans Hughes
Federal Farm Loan Act
Seaman’s Act
Jones Act
Central Powers
Allies
Lusitania
Arabic
Sussex
26.
What were the results of Wilson’s great reform assault on the “triple wall of privilege”--the
tariff, the banks, and the trusts?
27.
How was Wilson’s foreign policy an attempt to expand idealistic progressive principles from the
domestic to the international arena? Why did Wilson’s progressive democratic idealism lead to the kind
of interventions he professed to dislike?
28.
What were the causes and consequences of U.S. entanglement with Mexico in the wake of the
Mexican Revolution? Could the U.S. have avoided involvement in Mexican affairs?
29.
Why was it so difficult for Wilson to maintain America’s neutrality from 1914-1916?
30.
How did Wilson’s foreign policy differ from that of the other great progressive president,
Theodore Roosevelt? (See chapter 30.) Which president was the more effective in foreign policy and
why?
Chapter 33: The War to End War, 1917-1918
III.
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
George Creel
Bernard Baruch
Herbert Hoover
II.
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
7.
8.
self-determination
collective security
II.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
Zimmerman Note
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Committee on Public Information
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Industrial Workers of the World
War Industries Board
Nineteenth Amendment
4.
5.
6.
9.
10.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Marshal Foch
Henry Cabot Lodge
James M. Cox
conscription
“normalcy”
Food Administration
Eighteenth Amendment
Bolsheviks
doughboys
Big Four
irreconcilables
Treaty of Versailles
Essay Questions:
26.
What caused American entry into World War I, and how did Wilson trun the war into an ideological
crusade?
27.
Did World War I substantially alter American society and culture (e.g., ethnic, class, gender,
and race relations), or was it in effect primarily an “affair of the mind,” i.e., on American ideas and world
views?
28.
What was America’s military and ideological contribution to the Allied victory?
29.
How were the goals of the war presented to the American public? What does the text mean when it says
that the war and Wilson may have been “oversold” (p. 725)?
30.
How was Wilson forced to compromise during the peace negotiations, and why did America in the end
refuse to ratify the treaty and join the League of Nations?