THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

(Mid-1890's to U.S. Entry into WWI)


PROGRESSIVES

#1 - 1984

A. Henry George, Progress and Poverty
B. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
C. Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth
D. William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
E. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

#2 - 1993

African Americans
Farmers
Workers

#3 - 1979

Assess the validity of this statement with reference to THREE examples of reform legislation since 1900. You may draw your examples from reform at any level of government: national, state, or municipal.

#4 - 1987

#5 - 1988

#6 - 1989

#7 - 1981

Discuss this statement with reference to the periods 1850-1861 and 1900-1912.

#8 - 1983

 
Woodrow Wilson (Administrations of Taft and Roosevelt)
FDR (Administration of Hoover)
Eisenhower (Administrations of FDR and Truman)
Richard M. Nixon (Administrations of JFK and LBJ)

#9 - 1989

William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
 

#10 - 1997 - DBQ


I. Introduction


II. The Agrarian Revolt (1860 - 80%; today - 2%)


III. Toward the 1896 Election


IV. The Progressive Movement


INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRESSIVES AND REFORMERS CHART

 


I. Progressive Profile

A. Progressives - sought to solve the problems of the industrial age

B. Goals - Different theories focus on different goals as the most important


II. Reformers and Muckrakers

Urban reformers

Temperance Movement

Black Civil Rights

Women's Rights

Business Reform

Political Reform


V. The Progressive Presidents


A. Theodore Roosevelt

1. "Square Deal"

a. Business Regulation

 

b. Labor Relations


B. William Howard Taft ("Big Bill" Taft - 326 lbs.)

4. Upsetting the Progressives


C. Woodrow Wilson

1. Background

2. Progressive Reforms


VI. End of Progressivism

ESSAY

 


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