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CHAPTER 28
Progressivism
Big Picture Themes
1. The Progressives grew out of the Populist (or People’s) Party and sought to correct injustices.
2. Progressives and “muckraker” writers attacked city corruption, corporate greed, poor living and
working conditions, alcohol, and women’s right to vote. Each of these ills saw laws and/or
Amendments passed to attempt to better the condition.
3. Teddy Roosevelt made a name for himself as a “trust-buster”. That is, he broke up a few high-profile
companies that he said were monopolies (or trusts). Busting trusts and thus creating competition was to
benefit the average person.
4. He also obtained huge tracts of land, usually out West, for parks and conservation.
5. Roosevelt picked Taft to follow him, but Taft began to stray from Roosevelt’s ways and the two
split.
Chapter 28 “Need to Know”
1. Henry Demarest Lloyd
2. Jacob Riis
3. Ida Tarbell
4. Robert M. LaFollete
5. Hiram Johnson
6. Charles Evans Hughes
7. Upton Sinclair
8. William Howard Taft
9. Initiative
10. Referendum
11. Recall
12. Conservation
13. Muckrakers
14. Seventeenth Amendment
15. Eighteenth Amendment
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16. Elkins Act
17. Hepburn Act
18. Northern Securities Case
19. Meat Inspection Act
20. Pure Food and Drug Act
21. Newlands Act
22. Dollar diplomacy
23. Payne-Aldrich Act
24. Ballinger-Pinchot Affair.
25. Carey Act
Reading Questions
Progressive Roots
1. What were the goals of the Progressives?
Raking Muck with the Muckrakers
2. What issues were addressed by the major muckrakers?
Political Progressivism
3. Define each of the major political reforms that progressives desired.
Progressivism in the Cities and States
4. What changes did progressives make at the city and state level?
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Progressive Women
5. How successful were Progressives in combating social ills?
TR's Square Deal for Labor
6. What were the three C's of the Square Deal?
TR Corrals the Corporations
7. Assess the following statement, "Teddy Roosevelt's reputation as a trustbuster is undeserved."
Caring for the Consumer
8. What was the effect of Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle?
Earth Control
9. What factors led Americans to take an active interest in conservation?
The "Roosevelt Panic" of 1907
10. What were the results of the Roosevelt Panic of 1907?
The Rough Rider Thunders Out
11. What was the legacy of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency?
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Taft: A Round Peg in a Square Hole
12. "William Howard Taft was less suited for the presidency than he appeared to be." Explain
The Dollar Goes Abroad as a Diplomat
13. What was dollar diplomacy and how was it practiced?
Taft the Trustbuster
14. Who deserves the nickname "Trustbuster," Roosevelt or Taft? Why?
Taft Splits the Republican Party
15. Why did the Progressive wing of the Republican Party turn against Taft?
The Taft-Roosevelt Rupture
16. How did the Republican Party split at the party's 1912 convention?
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