• textbook --> 670 - 677.
• AMSCO --> pp. 424 - 427 [Doc. c --> p. 445].
• Excerpt from Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle.

1. What was the connection between the Progressive movement and ongoing urban and industrial tensions that originated in the 19c?
2. What role did organized labor play in the assault on political parties at the end of the 19c and the beginning of the 20c?
3. Identify the main points of the philosophy of the Social Gospel movement.  What contributions did this movement make to Progressivism?
4. How did American religions become more liberalized at the beginning of the 20c?
5. Who were the muckrakers?  Identify some of the major muckrakers and their writings.  How did they help prepare the way for Progressivism?
6. What was the impact that business and science had on the style of the Progressive movement?
7. What were the characteristics of the so-called new middle class and the new professionalism?
8. Describe the major changes in the role and status of women during the Progressive Era.  What were some of the clubs and organizations that helped women organize politically?
9. Why did socialism have an appeal during the Progressive Era?  What role did it play in promoting Progressive reform?
10. Identify the major sources of opposition to the Progressive movement.

                          ASSIGNMENT 2:

• textbook --> pp. 677 - 689.
• AMSCO --> pp. 428 - 430;  438 - 439.

1. What was the "settlement movement?"  What was the connection between it and the role of women in the Progressive movement?
2. List some of the challenges that faced those attempting to gain effective child labor legislation during the Progressive Era.
3. What was the philosophical dilemma faced by feminists and lawmakers who were attempting women's labor reform legislation during the Progressive Era?
4. What were some of the educational reforms proposed by John Dewey?  Why did education in the South lag behind that in the North?  How did racial segregation impact the quality of southern education?
5. Identify some key legislative initiatives of the Progressive Era that can be identified with the origins of the modern welfare state.
6. What role did Margaret Sanger play in challenging gender restrictions in the early 20c?
7. How did the Progressive movement impact life in rural America?
8. What were the connections between nativism and Progressivism?  What key efforts were made by Americans during the Progressive Era to restrict foreign immigration?
9. Explain the provisions of the 18th. Amendment and give reasons why progressives supported prohibition.
10. What was the connection between racism and reform in the "Progressive" South?
11. Explain the provisions of the 19th. Amendment.  Why did the woman suffrage argument moderate somewhat at the end of the 19c?
12. What was the impact of electoral reform on the extent of control political parties exercised over the election process?  What new interest groups began to usurp the power and influence of the major political parties?
13. How did Progressive reform impact the operation and structure of city government?
14. How did key progressive governors demonstrate that effective leadership was the key to successful reform?
15. Why was the state of Wisconsin called "the Laboratory of Democracy" in the early 20c?

                         ASSIGNMENT 3:

• textbook --> pp. 689 - 698.
• AMSCO --> pp. 430 - 437.
• Heffner --> pp. 269 - 282.

1. What were Teddy Roosevelt's assumptions about the proper role of government, especially with regard to economic concentration?
2. What was Roosevelt's theory of trust-busting?  To what extent would he be considered a "trust buster?"
3. Identify the changes which Roosevelt initiated in the traditional role of the federal government in labor disputes.
4. What was Roosevelt's program for conservation of natural resources?  Who were the sources of opposition to this program?
5. What was Roosevelt's lasting effect on national environmental policy?
6. How did Roosevelt's actions in the effort to strengthen the I. C. C. illustrate his tendency to take a middle road of reform?
7. Contrast the personalities of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
8. 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?
9. What events pushed Teddy Roosevelt into open opposition to Taft?  Why did Roosevelt break from the Republicans to form the Progressive ["Bull Moose"] Party in 1912?
10. Identify the main points of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom."
11. Explain the philosophical contest between New Freedom and New Nationalism in the 1912 presidential campaign.
12. Why was a graduated income tax needed by 1913?
13. Create a CHART that lists the major pieces of reform legislation coming out of the Wilson administration that addressed tariff, banking, farming, and labor reform.
14. After the initial passage of New Freedom legislation, why did Wilson back away from reform?
15. Identify some of the ironies and paradoxes of Progressivism.