CHAPTER 29: PROGRESSIVISM AND THE REPUBLICAN ROOSEVELT
1. What was the history of reform in America?
2. What were the origins of the progressive movement?
3. Who were the muckrakers?
4. What evils did Riis expose? Steffens? Tarbell? Spargo? Sinclair?
5. How effective were the muckrakers?
6. Who were the progressives?
7. What changes in the political system did progressives push for?
8. How did Progressives take control of local and city governments? Where?
9. What was the verdict in Muller v. Oregon?
10. What was the status of the prohibition movement?
11. What were the goals of TR's Square Deal?
12. What happened in the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902?
13. What two laws were passed to limit the powers of the railroads?
14. What were TR's views on trusts? What was the first big trust to be broken up?
15. What was the impact of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
16. What actions did Roosevelt take to protect the environment?
17. How did TR change the presidency?
18. Why was Taft selected as president?
19. What was "Dollar Diplomacy?" Examples in action?
20. Why did the Republicans split during Taft's administration?
CHAPTER 30: WILSON PROGRESSIVISM AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1912-1916
1. Explain Wilson's rise in politics.
2. Who were the three candidates in 1912?
3. How did Roosevelt's and Wilson's versions of progressivism differ?
4. Why did Wilson win the election of 1912?
5. How did Wilson fight the tariff?
6. What was the Sixteenth Amendment?
7. How did Wilson deal with the banking issues?
8. What two laws did Wilson get through Congress to regulate the trusts? What did they do?
9. How did the Clayton Anti-Trust Act help labor?
10. What was "Moral Diplomacy?" Examples?
11. Why did the US get involved in Mexico in the 1910s?
12. What was the resolution to the Mexican-American disputes of the 1910s?
Why did the US later invade Mexico?
13. What was America's stance as World War I began?
14. How did the US become financially involved in the affairs of WWI?
15. What was the German reaction to the Americans financial connection to the Allies?
16. What happened to the Lusitania ?
17. What was the Arabic Pledge? Sussex Pledge?
18. Who were the candidates and what were the results of the election of 1916?
CHAPTER 31: THE WAR TO END WAR, 1917-1918
1. What was the Zimmerman note?
2. What finally pushed the United States into World War I?
3. What idealistic ideas did Wilson push in an attempt to unify America as it headed to war?
4. What were the Fourteen Points?
5. What was the Committee on Public Information?
6. How did WWI impact civil liberties?
7. What problems did the nation face as it headed into war?
8. What changes in labor patterns took place during WWI?
9. What was the Food Administration? Its leader?
10. How did the US pay for WWI?
11. How did the US raise troops to fight in WWI?
12. How did American fighters impact the war?
13. How did Wilson weaken his power before going to Europe for peace talks in 1918?
14. What was Wilson's major goal during the peace talks?
15. How did Wilson's Fourteen Points fall apart at Versailles?
16. Why did many Americans dislike the Treaty of Versailles?
17. As the Treaty began to falter, what action did Wilson take?
18. Why did Lodge and the Republicans oppose the Treaty of Versailles?
19. Why did the Versailles Treaty ultimately fail?
20. What was the importance of the election of 1920?