HONORS U.S. HISTORY: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
Resources.
A People and A Nation, Chapter 21
The Jungle excerpt
1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech & 1906 Niagara Movement Speech
The Woman Rebel: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement
The Ambiguous Legacies of Women’s Progressivism
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice film
class notes and activities
The Progressive Era: Key Questions.
1. Explain why the Progressive reform movements emerged at this time in the U.S.
2. According to APAN, what were Progressives’ 3 main goals to address problems they saw in society? How did Progressives address these problems?
3. What was the one key belief they all had in common, in spite of many differences?
4. Who was the “typical Progressive”? How did middle class and working class reformers differ?
5. How were Progressives working towards political and governmental reforms and what obstacles did they face?
6. How did reformers try to legislate morality and what does it reveal about these Progressives?
7. Compare the goals and methods of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
8. In what ways was Margaret Sanger a ‘typical’ progressive and in what ways did she not reflect the progressives? Similarly, Ida B. Wells?
9. What were the arguments supporting and opposing birth control use?
10. How did Progressive female reformers’ efforts empower women? In what ways did their efforts deny women equality? – consider race, class, and gender – and give specific examples.
11. Compare the range of Progressives studied: who would build like-minded coalitions and who might clash? Why?
Key Terms.
Florence Kelley Progressives social institution
muckrakers Upton Sinclair Ida M. Tarbell
initiative referendum recall
Socialists Eugene V. Debs Robert M. La Follette
17th Amendment protective labor legislation Muller v. Oregon
Social Gospel Movement WCTU 18th Amendment
1910 Mann Act WEB Du Bois Booker T. Washington
Atlanta Compromise Niagara Movement “Talented Tenth”
NAACP Ida B. Wells Society of Amer. Indians
“the woman movement” women’s clubs feminism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Margaret Sanger 19th Amendment
suffrage Carrie Chapman Catt Alice Paul
Teddy Roosevelt “trustbuster” Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act United Mine Workers strike Gifford Pinchot
William Howard Taft 16th Amendment Progressive Party
Woodrow Wilson New Nationalism New Freedom
Clayton Anti-Trust Act FTC Federal Reserve Act
Federal Farm Loan Act Adamson Act Election of 1916
Honors U.S. History - Textbook Noteguide – The Progressive Era 1895-1920
I. Intro and Progressive Impulse 599-605
- Florence Kelley
- 3 goals of Progressives
- urban v. rural reformers; middle-class reformers
- muckrakers
- reforms to the political process
- scientific management and reform
- upper-class reformers, working-class reformers, socialists
- opponents of Progressivism
II. Governmental and Legislative Reform 605-608
- reforming corruption in government
- Progressive governors; 17th Amendment
- Labor reform; Moral reform
III. Challenges to Racial Discrimination 613-615
- Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
- Society of American Indians
IV. Challenges to Sexual Discrimination 616-619
- “the Woman Movement”; Women’s Clubs; Feminism
- Margaret Sanger
- Suffrage
V. Theodore Roosevelt and the Presidency 619-623
- regulation
- conservation
- Panic of 1907
- Taft Administration
VI. Woodrow Wilson and Conclusion 623-626
- New Nationalism and New Freedom
- Business Regulation; Tariff and Tax Reform
- Election of 1916
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