Bailey 29 Reading Guide Name: ______
Draw the government continuum from Unitary to Confederate and draw an arrow showing where the progressives wanted to go.
Draw the government continuum with an economic freedom/private property axes. Draw an arrow showing which way the progressives wanted to move.
How did the labor and populist movements lay the groundwork for the progressive movement?
Identify (author and thesis):
“Wealth Against the Commonwealth”
“The Theory of the Leisure Class”
“How the Other Half Lives”
“The Financier and The Titan”
(A little bit later in the text:)
“The Shame of the Cities”
“The Treason of the Senate”
“Following the Color Line”
“The Bitter Cry of the Children”
How did the “new” immigrants contribute to the growing criticism of American capitalism?
Discuss Cosmopolitan at the turn of the century and now. Use the terms “Muckraking” and “Yellow journalism.”
Were the muckrakers predominantly interested in sparking social reform or in selling newspapers? Defend your answer.
Go back up to the literature box and fill in important muckraking work.
What were the two main goals of progressives?
Identify:
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Why did the progressives support the Australian ballot? (What was the Australian ballot?)
Why did the progressives want to directly elect Senators?
Why did (non-female) progressives support women’s suffrage?
What urban reforms were favored by progressives?
Identify:
Fightin’ Bob La Follette
Hiram W. Johnson
Charles Evans Hughes
Just a thought: do you suppose your teacher could construct test questions that combined knowledge of where these fellows did their work AND geography? Hmm…
How did feminist female progressives reconcile the general belief that women had a “special sphere” with their social activism?
What was the National Consumers League?
Explain Muller v. Oregon – facts of the case, ruling, and judicial reasoning. In what direction did this case move America on the economic intervention axes?
How did the role of women in the progressive movement lead to a difference between the American and European welfare states? What is that difference?
What happened in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
Who was Frances E. Willard?
What organization became the leading group advocating temperance under her leadership?
What do the terms “dry” and “wet” stand for? (Personal note: When my dad was a young man working the night shift at a ball-bearing factory, he worked in an urban (read: dry) jurisdiction outside of Kenosha. After getting off work, he and his workers would drive to the rural (read: German-American and wet) neighboring county to drink at 4 AM. Thank goodness he is still alive!)
What as the “Square Deal?”
What were T.R.’s three “Cs” I wonder if you have any teachers who believe in these three Cs… (Oooo…. Let me go stand in the proscription box).
Why did Roosevelt make the environmental movement powerful?
Who was Gifford Pinchot?
What steps did Roosevelt take to set aside land for future generations?
Books matter! What impact did London’s fictional “Call of the Wild” have?
Explain the difference between preservationists and conservationists. How did the Hetch Hetchy controversy reveal those differences (as an aside, are you a preservationist or a conservationist? If you haven’t thought about it, you ought to).
What do you think Roosevelt would say about drilling in ANWR? Defend your answer.
The Environmentalists
Trace environmentalism in American history.
What is the “rational use” philosophy?
How did the New Deal affect the environment?
How did post-WW II biologists criticize earlier conservation efforts?
Identify the author and thesis of “Silent Spring.”
How did the rise of the suburbs influence the environmental movement?
What is the biggest environmental issue today?
What is “multiple-use research management?”
Why did Republican party leaders dislike Roosevelt?
How did the Panic of 1907 strengthen the hand of pro-business Republicans against the Square Dealer?
How did the Panic of 1907 influence future monetary policy?
Why did Roosevelt choose Taft as his successor?
How did that work out?
William Jennings Bryan griped that his policies had been stolen by Roosevelt’s Republicans. How does this illustrate the way the major parties responded to third party challenges?
Read the paragraphs spanning 682 and 683. Do you agree with Bailey’s assessment of the Roosevelt legacy?
Contrast Taft to Roosevelt.
Why was Taft’s foreign policy called “Dollar Diplomacy?” Ooooo. A review of the last Amsco chapter!
What was the Payne-Aldrich Bill?
Explain the sides in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy.
How did progressives within the Republican party revolt against Taft? Who was their initial choice for a presidential candidate in 1912?
Describe the events at the 1912 Republican convention.
To complete the story, you might want to read ahead through page 688.