AP US History
Chapter 21 – The Progressive Era, 1900-1917
Identifications: After reading Chapter 21, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance
of each of the following:
Progressive Movement
Thorstein Veblen
Herbert Croly
William James
Jane Addams
John Dewey
Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.
Muckrakers
Frank Norris
Theodore Dreiser
McClure’s Magazine
Collier’s Magazine
Lincoln Steffens
Maria Van Vorst
Ida Tarbell
Graham Phillips
Ashcan School
Lewis Hine
secret ballot
direct primary
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Frederick Taylor
Robert La Follette
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Louis Brandeis
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)
Mann Act (1910)
Jack Johnson
Prohibition Movement
WCTU
Anti-Saloon League
Narcotics Act of 1914
Immigrant Restriction League
Henry Cabot Lodge
Eugenics/Madison Grant
Buck v. Bell (1927)
D.W. Griffith
The Great Migration
James K. Vardaman
Ben Tillman
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Tuskegee Institute
Niagara Movement
NAACP
Woman-Suffrage Movement
NAWSA
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Josephine Dodge/ “Antis”
Alice Paul
Congressional Union
Woman’s Party
Florence Kelley
Alice Hamilton
Margaret Sanger
Danbury Hatters (1908)
I. Ladies Garment W. Union
Industrial Workers of the World
William Haywood
Theodore Roosevelt (TR)
“bully pulpit”
United Mine Workers Strike
trustbusting
“Square Deal”
Hepburn Act (1906)
Upton Sinclair/ The Jungle
(1906)
The Beef Trust
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Brownsville Incident
Conservation Movement
Gifford Pinchot
National Reclamation Act
(1902)
Antiquities Act
National Park Service
William Howard Taft
Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
The Insurgents
The Payne-Aldrich Bill
Election of 1912
Progressive (Bull Moose) party
“New Nationalism”
Woodrow Wilson
“New Freedom”
Eugene V. Debs
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
(1913)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Federal Trade Commission Act
(1914)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Keating-Owen Child Labor
Law (1916)
Adamson Act (1916)
Workers Compensation Act
(1916)
Federal Farm Loan Act
Federal Warehouse Act
Federal Highway Act
Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
Seventeenth Amendment (1913)
Eighteenth Amendment (1919)
Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
Thought Question:
The Progressive Era stands as a time when American politics seriously confronted the social upheavals wrought
by industrialization, but it also had its illiberal and coercive dimensions. Assess the validity of this statement.