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The document provides a study guide for a test on the Progressive Era in the United States. It includes an essential question about how Progressivism shaped reforms, and a main idea about Progressives challenging aspects of late 19th century society like laissez-faire economics and political corruption. It lists key questions about Progressive social reforms, the role of science in policymaking, contributions of African Americans, and political and economic reforms under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

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The document provides a study guide for a test on the Progressive Era in the United States. It includes an essential question about how Progressivism shaped reforms, and a main idea about Progressives challenging aspects of late 19th century society like laissez-faire economics and political corruption. It lists key questions about Progressive social reforms, the role of science in policymaking, contributions of African Americans, and political and economic reforms under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

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USII Study Guide

Progressive Movement: Study Guide


TEST: Period 3 Wednesday, December 22
Period 7 Thursday, December 23

Essential Question:
How did a Progressive agenda shape economic, social and political reforms in the United States?

Main Idea: The Progressives challenged many aspects of 19 th century society and economics,
notably laissez-faire theories, heartless industrialization, and political corruption. Progressives
took steps to protect the environment and secured the right to vote for women.

Textbook Chapters: 18 & 19, plus Eugenics Packet

Key Questions:
 What were the motivations of Progressive social reformers? How were their attitudes
toward “the other” reflected in their programs and policies’?

 What are the motivations behind progressive reformers’ actions and what ideas
influenced their thinking?

 What does it mean to be scientific? In what ways did “scientific” thinking influence
policies and ideas of the progressive era?

 What happens to a society when science & education defines human beings as superior or
inferior? How do these ideas affect public policy and human lives?

 During the Progressive Age, how was science used and misused to develop policy?
 How did African Americans contribute to the Progressive Era? Who was a stronger
advocate for African Americans: Washington or Dubois?

 In what ways did Progressive Politicians change American Society? Which President was
the most “progressive?”

 To what extent did Theodore Roosevelt provide a square deal for the American people?

 What attitudes about women and their relationships with men had to be overcome before
women could take their rightful place in American society? What were the arguments for
and against suffrage?

 What divisions in the Republican Party lead to the formation of the Progressive Party?
 How did reformers seek to limit the power of big business and to make government more
democratic in the early 1900s?

 Why were the 16th, 17th, and 19th Amendments adopted?


Muckraker Wisconsin Idea Federal Trade
Settlement Houses Upton Sinclair Commission
Australian Ballot Arbitration National American
Personal Registration Elkins Act Women Suffrage
Laws Hepburn Act Association
Disenfranchisement Meat Inspection Act Alice Paul
Suffrage Pure Food and Drug Act Nineteenth
NAACP National Park Service Amendment
Socialism William Howard Taft Theodore Roosevelt
Square Deal Sixteenth Amendment Eugenics
Bull Moose Campain Woodrow Wilson Samuel Morton
Tariff Reform Eugene Debs Jane Adams
Progressive Income Tax New Freedom Jacob Riis
Direct Primary Federal Reserve Act Upton Sinclair
Initiative Clayton Anti Trust Ida. B. Wells
Referendum Commission Ida Tarbell
Seventeenth Prohibition Margaret Sanger
Amendment

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