LESSON 21-22

GENESEE ACADEMY SOCIAL SCIENCE

LESSON 21-22

PROGRESSIVES

The Progressive Movement is one of reforms. These reforms are pushed by both major parties and a few minor parties. T. Roosevelt will lead the Republicans in these efforts. Identify his domestic policy. One such reform is the Pure Food and Drug Act. Identify the book that sparks the need for pure food.

Roosevelt is also known as a trust buster. Why? What does the Wisconsin Idea do? How? How is the 18th amendment an example of a government reform and not just a social reform?

Finally, identify the differences between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.

TERMS

Hepburn Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Sherman Antitrust Act

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Wisconsin Idea

Trust Buster

conservation

16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments

Niagara Movement

NAACP

muckraking

AP EXAM QUESTIONS

2005 FORM B, PART C

Question 4

How successful were progressive reforms during the period 1890 to 1915 with respect to TWO of the following?

Industrial conditions

Urban life

Politics

2007 FORM A, PART C

Question 4

To what extent did the role of the federal government change under President Theodore Roosevelt in regard to TWO of the following.

Labor

Trusts

Conservation

World affairs

READING TO CONSIDER

NIAGARA MOVEMENT

1. Who was W.E.B. duBois?

2. Discuss the idea of "manly agitation" as duBois would have considered it.

3. What the focus and goal of this movement?

4. Which Supreme Court decission would have influenced the ideas of this movement?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,..." Declaration of Independence, 1776