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Progressive Era

Chapter 28 Review American Pageant

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Chapter 28 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt (And Taft from Cincinnati!!!) What is it? Individuals that ?waged war on many evils, notably monopoly, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice.? Reform movements went back to the Greenbacks of 1870s and Populists of 1890s Popular writers Henry Demarest Lloyd: Wealth Against Commonwealth (against Standard Oil Company) Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives (slum houses in NYC) Crusaders against social injustice: Jane Addams Progressivism Shame on you slumlords! Who were muckrakers? Journalists who attempted to expose evils of society (government, food, trusts, etc.) Popular Muckrakers: (KNOW THESE!!!) Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities Ida M. Tarbell: published devastating expose about Standard Oil Company

DBQ Thesis Statement

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2012 DBQ Exercise In the post-Civil War United States, corporations grew significantly in number, size and influence. Analyze the impact of big business on the economy and politics and the responses of Americans to these changes. Confine your answer to the period 1870 to 1900. 2012 DBQ Exercise The impact of big business on the economy and politics and the responses of Americans to these changes Confine your answer to the period 1870 to 1900. 2012 DBQ Thesis Statements

American Pageant Chapter 28

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Progressivism in the United States

Chapter 28 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt (And Taft from Cincinnati!!!) What is it? Individuals that ?waged war on many evils, notably monopoly, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice.? Reform movements went back to the Greenbacks of 1870s and Populists of 1890s Popular writers Henry Demarest Lloyd: Wealth Against Commonwealth (against Standard Oil Company) Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives (slum houses in NYC) Crusaders against social injustice: Jane Addams Progressivism Shame on you slumlords! Who were muckrakers? Journalists who attempted to expose evils of society (government, food, trusts, etc.) Popular Muckrakers: (KNOW THESE!!!) Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities Ida M. Tarbell: published devastating expose about Standard Oil Company

DBQ Thesis Statements

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Samuel Gompers
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2012 DBQ Exercise In the post-Civil War United States, corporations grew significantly in number, size and influence. Analyze the impact of big business on the economy and politics and the responses of Americans to these changes. Confine your answer to the period 1870 to 1900. 2012 DBQ Exercise The impact of big business on the economy and politics and the responses of Americans to these changes Confine your answer to the period 1870 to 1900. 2012 DBQ Thesis Statements

Progressive Era Presidents

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Theodore Roosevelt
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Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt

Progressive Era Presidents Theodore Roosevelt William H. Taft Woodrow Wilson Muckrakers Temperance Suffragettes Popul ists M i d c l a s s W o m e n Labor Unions Civi l Rights Theodore ?Teddy? Roosevelt Early Life Born in a wealthy New York family. Was brought up to believe that ones with $ should help the less fortunate. Attended Harvard Univ. Roosevelt cont Political Life New York State Legislature Lost New York Mayor?s race New York Police Commissioner Appointed Assistant Secretary of Navy by McKinnley Elected Governor of New York Became McKinnley?s running mate in the 1900 election. Became President after McKinnley was assassinated by Leon Gzolgosz. Roosevelt as a Progressive President 1901 ? 1909

The Enduring Vision, 6th Edition, Chapter 21

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Chapter 21 {AP U.S. History} The Progressive Era, 1900-1917 Progressives and Their Ideas The Many Faces of Progressivism With more immigrants new professional allegiances and more standardized routinized society Progressivism = broad response to industrialization (immigration, urban growth, growing corporate power, widening class divisions), in cities, progressives were reformers (wanted to make order more humane, and not overturn it) Believed that problems could be solved through study and organized effort (respected science, expert knowledge) Novelists, Journalists, and Artists Spotlight Social Problems Journalists were muckrakers when they would bring out the worst in American life, exposing urban political corruption and corporate wrongdoing, name given by Theodore Roosevelt

Progressive Era Terms

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Prohibition in the United States
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Politics

Alisa Chen Hamza Noor Rohini Verma Christina Xu Jenny Zhi Progressive Unit Terms People- Theodore Roosevelt- American politician, Republican, author, soldier, and the 26th President of the United States. Became the youngest President after the assassination of President McKinley. William Howard Taft- 27th President and 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Woodrow Wilson- 28th President of the United States, he was president when World War One. Robert La Follette- nicknamed ?Fighting Bob? was an American Republican who was a Senator, member of the House of Representative, and Governor of Wisconsin. ?He was the PRogressive Party?s nominee for the 1924 election. ?He opposed railroad trists and is considered one the Americas greatest Senators.

Chapter 28 Test

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Chapter 28 Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 43. As one progressive explained, the ?real heart? of the progressive movement was to a. preserve world peace. b. use the government as an agency of human welfare. c. ensure the Jeffersonian style of government. d. reinstate the policy of laissez-faire. e. to promote economic and social equality. 44. Progressives, who were among the strongest critics of injustice in early- twentieth-century America, received much of their inspiration from a. the Federalists. b. the Greenback Labor party and the Populists. c. foreign nations. d. progressive theorists, like Jacob Riis. e. social Darwinists. 45. Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism.

Politics in the Age of Enterprise

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Politics in the Age of Enterprise Chapter 19 The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-1893 5 presidents from 1877-1893 (admirable men although none were very charismatic & didn?t leave a larger mark on history) Rutherford B. Hayes (R, 1877-1881) ? presidency decided by one vote; troops were withdrawn from the South?end of Reconstruction ? era of immigration, industrialization & rise of labor unions ? he tried to run an honest administration but not very successful in terms of getting Congressional support for legislation James Garfield (R, 1881) assassinated ? patronage was still a part of how he appointed gov. employees despite Congressional demands for good civil service laws

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