Homework Sheet Unit 12:

Progressivism and WWI

Date / Class Activities / Homework Due In Class Today
Tues
2/18 / ·  TR and Progressivism / ·  Chapter 31 682-695
·  Documents 1-5
Block
2/19-2/20 / ·  Finish Progressivism
·  Taft
·  Wilson / ·  Chapter 31 695-701
·  Chapter 32 703-713
·  Documents 6 and 7
Fri
2/21 / ·  Causes of WWI / ·  Chapter 32 713-720
Mon
2/24 / ·  WWI / ·  Chapter 33 722-733
·  Document 8
Tues
2/25 / ·  WWI / ·  Chapter 33 733-744
·  Documents 9 and 10
Block
2/26-2/27 / ·  Work on DBQ's
Friday
2/28 / ·  Unit 12 Test
·  Receive Unit 13 HW / ·  Unit 12 Notebook

Sources Used this Unit:

·  Pageant (Your Textbook): Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant: A History of the Republic. Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin. 11th Edition.


Unit 12: Progressivism at Home and Abroad + WWI

Content Covered

Progressivism:

Roots of Progressivism in America; Muckrakers; Social Issues;

Politics:

Political Progressivism; City Progressivism; Roosevelt’s Square Deal; Trustbusting; The Jungle; National Parks; Taft; Taft Splits the Republican Party; Taft vs. Roosevelt; Bull Moose Campaign of 1912; Wilsonian Progressivism; Changes in Foreign Policy; Lodge-Wilson feud

Economics:

Panic of 1907; Dollar Diplomacy; Wilson and the Tariff; Wilson Battles the Banks; War Economy;

Society in America:

Immigration from Mexico; WWI Propaganda; Espionage and Sedition Acts; Homefront during the War; Suffrage; The Draft;

Foreign Policy:

WWI Begins in Europe; Neutrality; Lusitania; America Declares War; Wilson’s 14 Points; WWI; Treaty of Versailles; America’s Part in the Failure of the Treaty of Versailles;

Primary Reading

· American Pageant: Chapters 31-33

Secondary Reading

Muckraking:

1.  Exposing the Meat Packers (1906) (excerpts from The Jungle) – Document 32-A-1 TAS V2 (200-202)

2.  Child Labor in the Coal Mines (1906) – Document 32-C-2 TAS V2 (209-211)

Conservation:

3.  Roosevelt Saves the Forests (1907) – Document 32-D-1 TAS V2 (213-214)

Suffrage:

4.  Senator Robert Owen Supports Women (1910) – Document 32-E-1 TAS V2 (219-221)

5.  A Woman Assails Women’s Suffrage (1910) – Document 32-E-2 TAS V2 (221-223)

Trusts:

6.  J.P. Morgan Denies a Money Trust (1913) – Documents 33-C-2 TAS V2 (233-235)

7.  William McAdoo Exposes the Bankers (c.1913) – Documents 33-C-3 TAS V2 (235-236)

World War I:

8.  George Creel Spreads Fear Propaganda (c.1918) – Document 34-C-1 TAS V2 (257-258)

9.  A Doughboy Describes the Fighting Front (1918) – Document 34-D-2 TAS V2 (266-269)

10.  Woodrow Wilson Unveils his 14 Points (1918) AND Theodore Roosevelt Blunts Wilson’s Points (1918) – Documents 34-C-2&3 TAS V2 (258-263)

Chapter 31: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Vocabulary:

1.  Upton Sinclair

2.  Jacob Riis

3.  Lincoln Steffens

4.  Ida Tarbell

5.  conservation

6.  recall

7.  initiative

8.  referendum

9.  Meat Inspection Act

10.  Pure Food and Drug Act

11.  Forest Reserve Act

12.  Muckrakers

13.  Seventeenth Amendment

14.  Eighteenth Amendment

15.  Elkins Act

16.  Hepburn Act

17.  Northern Securities Act

18.  Newland Act

19.  Dollar diplomacy

20.  Payne-Aldrich Act

21.  Ballinger-Pinchot affair

Important Questions:

22.  What were the 4 main reform goals of progressivism?

23.  Who were the muckrakers? Identify some of the major muckrakers and their works. How did they prepare the way for Progressivism?

24.  Why did so many upper- and middle-class women become progressives? What groups did they join?

25.  What were the principal arguments for and against women's suffrage? Why didn’t Wilson support it?

26.  How did progressive reform impact the operation and structure of city government?

27.  Who was Robert La Follette? Why did his state, Wisconsin, become known as "The Laboratory of Democracy?" (not in your book-look this up!)

28.  What was the relationship between the weakening of political parties and the rise of interest groups?

29.  Why was progressivism especially strong in the western states?

30.  What was T. R.'s theory of "trust busting?" To what extent would he be considered a "trust buster?"

31.  Identify the major laws passed during T. R.'s administration which effectively expanded the regulatory powers of the federal government.

32.  What were some of the progressive reforms pushed by organized labor? What changes did T. R. initiate in the traditional role of the federal government regarding labor disputes? How did he deal with the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902?

33.  What was Roosevelt's program for the conservation of natural resources? Who were the sources of opposition to this program? What was Roosevelt's lasting effect on national environmental policy?

34.  What were the major political problems that confronted Taft during his presidential administration? How did his actions, and lack of action, contribute to the division of the Republican Party?


Chapter 32: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916

Vocabulary:

1.  Herbert Croly

2.  Louis D. Brandeis

3.  Victoriano Huerta

4.  Venustiano Carranza

5.  Pancho Villa

6.  Kaiser Wilhelm II

7.  Charles Evans Hughes

8.  New Nationalism

9.  New Freedom

10.  Workingman’s Compensation Act

11.  Adamson Act

12.  Underwood Tariff Bill

13.  Sixteenth Amendment

14.  Federal Reserve Act

15.  Federal Trade Commission Act

16.  Clayton Antitrust Act

17.  Federal Farm Loan Act

18.  Seaman’s Act

19.  Jones Act

20.  Central Powers

21.  Allies

22.  Lusitania

Important Questions:

23.  Why did T. R. break from the Republicans to form the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party in 1912? What were the key issues of the Progressive Party platform in 1912? What did T. R. mean by a "New Nationalism?"

24.  Identify the main points of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom."

25.  What was Wilson's tariff policy? How was it a departure from the tariff policies of the Gilded Age presidents?

26.  What were the major long-term causes of World War I?

27.  Why did Germany rely on U-Boats? How did the German U-Boat campaign affect US public opinion and actions?

28.  How did Wilson’s foreign policy differ from that of the other great progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt? (See chapter 30.) Which president was the more effective in foreign policy and why?

29.  What were the causes and consequences of U.S. entanglement with Mexico in the wake of the Mexican Revolution? Could the U.S. have avoided involvement in Mexican affairs?

30.  Why was it so difficult for Wilson to maintain America’s neutrality from 1914-1916?


Chapter 33: The War to End War, 1917-1918

Vocabulary:

  1. George Creel
  2. Bernard Baruch
  3. Herbert Hoover
  4. Henry Cabot Lodge
  5. self-determination
  6. collective security
  7. conscription
  8. Zimmerman Note
  9. Fourteen Points
  10. League of Nations
  11. Committee on Public Information
  12. Espionage and Sedition Acts
  13. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  14. War Industries Board
  15. Nineteenth Amendment
  16. Food Administration
  17. Bolsheviks
  18. doughboys
  19. Big Four
  20. Treaty of Versailles

Important Questions:

21.  Why were more Americans sympathetic to the Allied side in the war? What events finally prompted President Wilson to ask for a declaration of war in the spring of 1917? What were the reasons for the US going to war that President Wilson enumerated in his speech to Congress on April 2, 1917?

22.  How did the United States raise the troops necessary for the massive war effort? What impact did the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) have on the ground war in Europe?

23.  What roles did women and African Americans play in the military? How were African-American troops treated?

24.  Identify the new technologies that the two sides employed in World War I. What were the consequences of this new killing power?

25.  On what two methods did the Wilson administration depend to finance the war effort? How did the war cost compare with the typical peacetime budgets of that era? How did the Wilson administration organize the wartime economy? List the government boards responsible for the economy during World War I?

26.  Why were there labor shortages at this time? How was this problem resolved? How were labor unions treated during World War I?

27.  Into what three parts could the Fourteen Points be characterized?

28.  How did the great global influenza pandemic of 1918 affect the war?

29.  What was the diplomatic philosophy that President Wilson brought to the Paris Peace Conference? What obstacles did Wilson face in getting the European leaders to accept his approach to peace? What domestic development weakened his position?

30.  What were the political divisions within Congress regarding the ratification of the Versailles Treaty? What issues led to the failure to ratify it? How much of the blame for the Treaty's defeat must be laid on Wilson himself?

31.  What inspired the Red Scare of 1919-1920? Was the threat real or imagined?

32.  What did the results of the election of 1920 indicate about the mood of the American people?