Class Preparation Assignment: Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1900-1917
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Jane Addams
Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life, and the New Republic
John Dewey
Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and the muckrakers
Hazen Pingree and the progressive reform mayors
Florence Kelley
Robert La Follette and the "Wisconsin Idea"
Anti-Saloon League and Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Booker T. Washington in contrast to William Monroe Trotter, Ida Wells-Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, and
the Niagara Movement
Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, and the NAACP
Carrie Chapman Catt and the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Alice Paul and the Woman's party
Margaret Sanger and birth control
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
William Haywood and the Industrial Workers of the World
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Party of America
Theodore Roosevelt and the coal miners' strike of 1902
Northern Securities Company case
Hepburn Act
Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
Newlands (National Reclamation) Act, 1902
Gifford Pinchot and the conservationists
John Muir, the Sierra Club, and the preservationists
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
the Insurgents and Joseph Cannon
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
New Nationalism and New Freedom
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
Federal Reserve Act, Federal Reserve Board, and Federal Reserve notes
Federal Trade Commission
Clayton Antitrust Act
Louis Brandeis and Muller v. Oregon
constitutional amendments of the Progressive Era: Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth
“Points to Ponder”
1. Explain the ways in which the populist and progressive reform movements were similar. In what
ways were they different?
2. Which groups of people were attracted to the Socialist Party of America and/or the Industrial
Workers of the World in the period 1900-1917? Why?
3. Who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)? Why?
How did the founders of the NAACP differ in their ideas from Booker T. Washington?
4. What were some of the political and economic-social reforms enacted by state governments
under the leadership of progressive governors such as Robert La Follette?
5. Discuss the contributions of Theodore Roosevelt and his U.S. Forest Service chief, Gifford
Pinchot, to the conservation movement. Was Roosevelt also a preservationist? Which of his
actions indicate he was or was not?
6. Compare and contrast Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalist platform with Woodrow Wilson's
New Freedom.