Study Guide - Unit Ten: Progressivism and Foreign Affairs

 

Due Date

Assignment

Fri., Jan. 27

Outline Due - This is a test grade.  You will lose 10 points per day that your outline is late.  You may receive extra credit for turning it in early – two points per day.

Mon., Jan. 30

1. Read p. 494 – 500

2. Fill out the chart on The Origin of Progressivism

Tues., Jan. 31

1. Read p. 501 – 504

2. Answer questions 1 – 3

3. Read the packet on Women’s Suffrage and make a list of reasons for and against women getting the vote. 

Weds., Feb. 1

1. Read p. 505 – 511

2. Fill out the Chart on Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal

Thurs., Feb. 2

1. Read p. 512 – 515

2. Answer questions 4 - 6

Mon., Feb. 6

1. Read p. 516 – 521

2. Read the excerpt on Varieties of Progressivism

3. Answer questions 7 – 9.  Prepare your answer to question 9 on a separate sheet of paper for turning in.  I will collect it.

Tues., Feb. 7

1. Read the excerpt from The Jungle and answer the Discussion Questions at the end.

2. Start working on the College Admissions Activity

Weds., Feb. 8

Prepare the College Admissions Activity.

Thurs., Feb. 9

1. Read p. 526 – 534 (to “War Breaks Out”)

2. Read the excerpt from Alfred Thayer Mayan

3. Answer questions 1 – 6 for Chapter 18

Mon., Feb 13

Revised Outline due

Tues., Feb. 14

Be prepared for Debate on annexing the Philippines

Weds., Feb. 15

1. Read p. 535 – 549

2. Answer questions 7 – 9

Thurs., Feb. 16

Test

 


Reading Questions – Chapter 17

 

1.

What jobs were women in each group likely to hold: lower class, middle and upper class, African American, Immigrants?

2.

How did educational opportunities change and how did these new opportunities affect the lives of middle and upper class women?

3.

What three strategies were adopted by the suffragists to win the vote and what results did each strategy produce?

4.

As a progressive, how did Taft compare with Roosevelt, his predecessor?

5.

In 1912, the Republican Party split at its convention into Progressives and Conservatives.  Why did each of these groups support or oppose Taft?

6.

Make a chart of the 4 parties that ran for president in 1912 showing the candidates and that candidate’s position on big business.

7.

Identify the aims of each of the following: Federal Trade Act, Clayton Antitrust Act, Underwood Tariff, Sixteenth Amendment, Federal Reserve Act.

8.

What were Wilson’s positions on women’s suffrage and civil rights?

9.

Based on the reading, what were the differences between Roosevelt and Wilson? What does the author mean when he describes TR as more Hamiltonian and WW as more Jeffersonian? Which do you find most appealing and why?  Be sure to answer all three of these questions.

 

Identifications – Chapter 17

 

1.

Florence Kelley

17.

Initiative, referendum, recall

33.

Gifford Pinchot

2.

Carry Nation

18.

Seventeenth Amendment

34.

W.E.B. Du Bois

3.

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

19.

National Association of Colored Women

35.

Niagara Movement

4.

Frances Willard

20.

Suffrage

36.

NAACP

5.

Anti-Saloon League

21.

Susan B. Anthony

37.

William Howard Taft

6.

Muckrakers

22.

National American Woman Suffrage Association

38.

Pinchot-Ballinger Affair

7.

Ida Tarbell

23.

Theodore Roosevelt

39.

Bull Moose Party

8.

American Socialist Party

24.

Anthracite coal miner strike

40.

Election of 1812

9.

Eugene V. Debs

25.

Northern Securities Co. v. US (1904)

41.

Woodrow Wilson

10.

Edward Bellamy Looking Backward

26.

Hepburn Act (1906), Interstate Commerce Commission

42.

Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)

11.

Scientific Management

27.

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

43.

Federal Trade Commission (1914)

12.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

28.

The Square Deal

44.

Underwood Tariff (1913)

13.

Henry Ford

29.

Meat Inspection Act (1906)

45.

Sixteenth Amendment (1913)

14.

Robert M. La Follette

30.

Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

46.

Federal Reserve System

15.

Keating-Owen Act (1916)

31.

John Muir, Sierra Club

47.

Carrie Chapman Catt

16.

Muller v. Oregon

32.

Newlands Act

48.

Nineteenth Amendment

Reading Questions – Chapter 18

 

1.

Summarize the three reasons why the U.S. became an imperial power.

2.

Summarize how Hawaii came to be an American territory.

3.

After reading the excerpt from Alfred Thayer Mahan, summarize all the reasons that Mahan gives for building a strong U.S. navy and securing overseas naval bases.

4.

Outline the reasons for getting involved in a war with Spain.

5.

Summarize the outcomes of the fighting in the War.

6.

What were the provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 1898?

7.

Define the following: Foraker Act, Platt Amendment, Open Door Policy, and the Boxer Rebellion

8.

What were the beliefs underlying the Open Door Policy?

9.

Define the following: Great White Fleet, Roosevelt Corollary, Dollar Diplomacy, and Missionary Diplomacy

 

Identifications – Chapter 18

 

1.

Imperialism

13.

U.S.S. Maine

25.

John Hay

2.

Afred T. Mahan

14.

Admiral Dewey

26.

Boxer Rebellion

3.

Anti-Imperialism

15.

Battle of Manila Bay

27.

Russo-Japanese War

4.

Queen Liliuokalani

16.

Rough Riders

28.

Great White Fleet

5.

Sanford B. Dole

17.

Theodore Roosevelt

29.

Panama Revolution

6.

Jose Marti

18.

Battles of Kettle and San Juan Hills

30.

Panama Canal

7.

General Weyler

19.

Treaty of Paris

31.

Roosevelt Corollary

8.

Yellow journalism

20.

Foraker Act

32.

Dollar Diplomacy

9.

William Randolph Hearst

21.

Platt Amendment

33.

Missionary Diplomacy

10.

Joseph Pulitzer

22.

Philippine American War

34.

Mexican Revolution

11.

De Lome Letter

23.

Emilio Aguinaldo

35.

Pancho Villa

12.

President McKinley

24.

Open Door Policy

36.

John Pershing

 

Themes

 

The Progressive Era At Home

 

o                    The main goals of the various groups in the Progressive movement and their successes and failures in achieving political, social, economic, and moral reform

o                    The problems which women and minorities faced in this era and their success in overcoming these problems

o                    Compare and contrast the personalities, programs, and administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson

o                    The political, social, and economic impact of the Progressive era on American society

 

An Emerging World Power

 

o        The roles of ideology and culture in American expansionism and imperialism; the motivation for American imperialism and how American imperialism compared to European imperialism

o        America’s relationship with other countries in the Western Hemisphere in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; an evaluation of those policies

o        America’s relationship with Asia, including China, the Philippines, and Japan, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; an evaluation of those policies

o        The underlying and immediate causes of the Spanish American War and the provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 1898

o        The debate between anti-imperialists and imperialists over acquiring an empire; why the expansionists prevailed

o        An evaluation of United States’ foreign policy towards smaller nations

o        Roosevelt’s, Taft’s, and Wilson’s foreign policies