Study Guide

Progressive Era, 1900-1919

NOTE: If you can answer these questions satisfactorily, you should do well on this section of the first exam. The material below consists of important material from the lecture. Questions on the test will be largely taken from this material.

Terms (definition and significance):

social justice

municipal government reform

Robert LaFollette

Ida Tarbell

Upton Sinclair

recall

initiative

referendum

direct primaries

sociological jurisprudence

Louis Brandeis

17^th Amendment

Carrie Catt

Jeanette Rankin

18^th Amendment

Booker T. Washington

W. E. B. Dubois

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Urban League

Square Deal

Mark Hanna

Trust Busting

“Rule of reason”

Industrial Workers of the World

Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909

Ballinger-Pinchot Affair

Bull Moose Party

New Freedom

Underwood Tariff

16^th Amendment

Federal Reserve Act of 1913

Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914

Questions to Think About:

What was progressivism?

Who and where were the progressives?

What were the problems that progressivism was trying to solve?

What were some of progressivism’s achievement politically, economically, and socially.

What was the nature of Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency?

What was the nature of Taft’s presidency?

What was the nature of Wilson’s presidency?