Homework Sheet Unit 12:
Progressivism and WWI
Date
Tues
Class Activities
 TR and Progressivism
2/18
Homework Due In Class Today
 Chapter 31 682-695
 Documents 1-5
Block
 Finish Progressivism
 Chapter 31 695-701
2/19-
 Taft
 Chapter 32 703-713
2/20
 Wilson
 Documents 6 and 7
 Causes of WWI
 Chapter 32 713-720
Fri
2/21
Mon
2/24
Tues
2/25
 WWI
 WWI
 Chapter 33 722-733
 Document 8
 Chapter 33 733-744
 Documents 9 and 10
Block
2/26-
 Work on DBQ's
2/27
Friday
2/28
 Unit 12 Test
 Receive Unit 13 HW
 Unit 12 Notebook
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
Vocabulary:
1. Upton Sinclair
2. Jacob Riis
3. Lincoln Steffens
4. Ida Tarbell
5. conservation
6. recall
7. initiative
8. referendum
9. Meat Inspection Act
10. Pure Food and Drug Act
11. Forest Reserve Act
12. Muckrakers
13. Seventeenth Amendment
14. Eighteenth Amendment
15. Elkins Act
16. Hepburn Act
17. Northern Securities Act
18. Newland Act
19. Dollar diplomacy
20. Payne-Aldrich Act
21. Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Important Questions:
22. What were the 4 main reform goals of progressivism?
23. Who were the muckrakers? Identify some of the major muckrakers and their works. How did they
prepare the way for Progressivism?
24. Why did so many upper- and middle-class women become progressives? What groups did they join?
25. What were the principal arguments for and against women's suffrage? Why didn’t Wilson support
it?
26. How did progressive reform impact the operation and structure of city government?
27. Who was Robert La Follette? Why did his state, Wisconsin, become known as "The Laboratory of
Democracy?" (not in your book-look this up!)
28. What was the relationship between the weakening of political parties and the rise of interest groups?
29. Why was progressivism especially strong in the western states?
30. What was T. R.'s theory of "trust busting?" To what extent would he be considered a "trust buster?"
31. Identify the major laws passed during T. R.'s administration which effectively expanded the
regulatory powers of the federal government.
32. What were some of the progressive reforms pushed by organized labor? What changes did T. R.
initiate in the traditional role of the federal government regarding labor disputes? How did he deal
with the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902?
33. What was Roosevelt's program for the conservation of natural resources? Who were the sources of
opposition to this program? What was Roosevelt's lasting effect on national environmental policy?
34. What were the major political problems that confronted Taft during his presidential administration?
How did his actions, and lack of action, contribute to the division of the Republican Party?
Chapter 32: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916
Vocabulary:
1. Herbert Croly
2. Louis D. Brandeis
3. Victoriano Huerta
4. Venustiano Carranza
5. Pancho Villa
6. Kaiser Wilhelm II
7. Charles Evans Hughes
8. New Nationalism
9. New Freedom
10. Workingman’s Compensation Act
11. Adamson Act
12. Underwood Tariff Bill
13. Sixteenth Amendment
14. Federal Reserve Act
15. Federal Trade Commission Act
16. Clayton Antitrust Act
17. Federal Farm Loan Act
18. Seaman’s Act
19. Jones Act
20. Central Powers
21. Allies
22. Lusitania
Important Questions:
23. Why did T. R. break from the Republicans to form the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party in 1912?
What were the key issues of the Progressive Party platform in 1912? What did T. R. mean by a "New
Nationalism?"
24. Identify the main points of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom."
25. What was Wilson's tariff policy? How was it a departure from the tariff policies of the Gilded
Age presidents?
26. What were the major long-term causes of World War I?
27. Why did Germany rely on U-Boats? How did the German U-Boat campaign affect US public
opinion and actions?
28. 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?
29. 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?
30. Why was it so difficult for Wilson to maintain America’s neutrality from 1914-1916?
Chapter 33: The War to End War, 1917-1918
Vocabulary:
1. George Creel
2. Bernard Baruch
3. Herbert Hoover
4. Henry Cabot Lodge
5. self-determination
6. collective security
7. conscription
8. Zimmerman Note
9. Fourteen Points
10. League of Nations
11. Committee on Public Information
12. Espionage and Sedition Acts
13. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
14. War Industries Board
15. Nineteenth Amendment
16. Food Administration
17. Bolsheviks
18. doughboys
19. Big Four
20. Treaty of Versailles
Important Questions:
21. Why were more Americans sympathetic to the Allied side in the war? What events finally prompted President Wilson
to ask for a declaration of war in the spring of 1917? What were the reasons for the US going to war that President
Wilson enumerated in his speech to Congress on April 2, 1917?
22. How did the United States raise the troops necessary for the massive war effort? What impact did the American
Expeditionary Force (AEF) have on the ground war in Europe?
23. What roles did women and African Americans play in the military? How were African-American troops treated?
24. Identify the new technologies that the two sides employed in World War I. What were the consequences of this new
killing power?
25. On what two methods did the Wilson administration depend to finance the war effort? How did the war cost compare
with the typical peacetime budgets of that era? How did the Wilson administration organize the wartime economy?
List the government boards responsible for the economy during World War I?
26. Why were there labor shortages at this time? How was this problem resolved? How were labor unions treated during
World War I?
27. Into what three parts could the Fourteen Points be characterized?
28. How did the great global influenza pandemic of 1918 affect the war?
29. What was the diplomatic philosophy that President Wilson brought to the Paris Peace Conference? What obstacles did
Wilson face in getting the European leaders to accept his approach to peace? What domestic development weakened
his position?
30. What were the political divisions within Congress regarding the ratification of the Versailles Treaty? What issues led
to the failure to ratify it? How much of the blame for the Treaty's defeat must be laid on Wilson himself?
31. What inspired the Red Scare of 1919-1920? Was the threat real or imagined?
32. What did the results of the election of 1920 indicate about the mood of the American people?