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Topic #20 Overview Sheet
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- What were the key reform "impulses" that
characterized progressivism?
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Who were the muckrakers?
Identify some of the major muckrakers and their writings. How did
they prepare the way for Progressivism?
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What
contribution did the Social Gospel movement make to progressivism?
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Identify the main points of
the philosophy of the Social Gospel movement. What contributions
did this movement make to Progressivism?
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What were the characteristics of the
so-called new professionalism? How did it express itself in the
social sciences?
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did so many upper- and middle-class women become progressives?
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What was meant by the "new woman?"
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What organizations/clubs helped to politically organize
women during the Progressive Era?
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What role did
Margaret Sanger play in challenging gender restrictions in the early
20c?
- What were the principal arguments
for and against women's suffrage?
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How did the
debate over the "sphere" of women shape the suffrage movement?
Which position was probably the most influential in finally obtaining
the vote for women? Why was the West different?
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What happened to the women's movement after suffrage was
accomplished in 1920?
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Assignment #2 |
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- textbook: mid-pg.
577 to mid-pg. 583; mid-pg. 584 - pg. 589.
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- How did
progressive reform impact the operation and structure of city
government?
- What was the basic purpose of the
initiative, referendum, direct primary, and recall?
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Who was Robert La Follette?
Why did his state, Wisconsin, become known as "The Laboratory of
Democracy?"
- What was the relationship
between the weakening of political parties and the rise of interest
groups?
- What were some of the progressive
reforms pushed by organized labor?
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By what
means did some urban political machines, such as Tammany Hall, manage
to survive the progressive era?
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Why was
progressivism especially strong in the western states?
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Today, anti-liquor laws are often thought of as
conservative. Why was prohibition regarded as a progressive
issue? What forces usually opposed prohibition?
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Most progressives abhorred the urban disorder resulting
from the influx of immigrants, but they differed about the appropriate
response to the problem. Which one dominated and why?
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Assignment #3 |
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- How did Teddy Roosevelt's earlier life prepare him to take the
role as the youngest President in American history?
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What were Teddy
Roosevelt's assumptions about the proper role of government, especially
with regard to economic concentration?
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What was T. R.'s theory of
"trust busting?" To what extent would he be considered a "trust
buster?"
- How did the publication of Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle,
in 1906 affect the safety of the meat that people eat today?
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Identify
the major laws passed during T. R.'s administration which effectively
expanded the regulatory powers of the federal government.
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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?
- 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?
- What was the legacy of George Perkins
Marsh?
- How did T. R. modernize the role of
the American Presidency?
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Contrast the personalities of Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard
Taft.
- 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?
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Why was Teddy Roosevelt pushed into open opposition to Taft?
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What role did Speaker of the House, "Uncle Joe" Cannon,
play in the fragmentation of the Republican party by 1910? What
other issues aided in this fragmentation?
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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 [Bull Moose] Party platform in 1912? What did T. R.
mean by a "New Nationalism?"
- Identify the main
points of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom."
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Explain the philosophical contest between the "New Freedom" and the "New
Nationalism in the 1912 presidential campaign?
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What were the provisions of the Clayton Antitrust Act? How did it
benefit labor?
- What was the purpose of the
creation of the Federal Trade Commission?
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How
does the Federal Reserve System work? Why is it considered to be
one of the important domestic achievements of Wilson's administration?
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Why was a graduated income tax needed in 1913?
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What was Wilson's tariff policy? How was it a
departure from the tariff policies of the Gilded Age presidents?
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Why did Wilson oppose women's suffrage?
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After the initial spate of New Freedom legislation, why
did Wilson back away from reform? What led him later in his first
term, to advance reform once again?
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Textbook Quizzes -->
chapter
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chapter 22
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Outlines / Lecture Notes / Review Sheets:
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APUSH Review Timeline (interactive)
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Giant
AHAP Review Sheet by a student from the class of '04, Horace Greeley HS
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Timeline- 1751 to 1800
- Note Cards -->
851-900 ;
901-950
- Cram Sheet -->
Ulysses S. Grant through Grover Cleveland ;
William McKinley through Woodrow Wilson
- Presidential Election Data -->
1868
1872
1876
1880
1884
1888
1892
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