Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
SUMMARY QUESTIONS 28( pp. 638-659)
You need to type your responses and turn in a hard copy on the assigned due date. These answers must be in complete sentences and they will be based on your reading of the assigned chapter. You must also use information from the videos, powerpoints, and supplemental information posted on this page. Below is a rubric for this assignment and Chapter 27 FORMAT REMINDERS: Each response needs to have a thesis/topic sentence underlined that answers the question
Highlight (green) the definitions you use as evidence to answer each question. You should after answer each question, use all of the below vocabulary terms. At the end of each response, connect your response to the appropriate Key Concept by placing the number in parentheses at the end of your response, for example (7.2.I.A). You need to include the Roman numeral and letter on this assignment. Use the Historical Period 7 Key Concept Guideline you receive in class. CH 28 Questions
1. Progressive Roots · What were the goals of the Progressives? · Use: Laissez-faire, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Jacob Riis, Theodore Dreiser, Jane Addams, Lillian Weld 2. Raking Muck with the Muckrakers · What issues were addressed by the major muckrakers? · Use: McClure's, Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell, Thomas W. Lawson, David G. Phillips, Ray Stannard Baker, John Spargo 3. Political Progressivism · Define each of the major political reforms that progressives desired. · Use: Direct Primary Elections, Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Australian Ballot, Millionaires' Club, Seventeenth Amendment, Suffragists 4. Progressivism in the Cities and States · What changes did progressives make at the city and state level? · Use: Robert M. La Follette, The Wisconsin Idea, Hiram W. Johnson, Charles Evans Hughes 5. Progressive Women · How successful were Progressives in combating social ills? · Use: Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Muller v. Oregon, Lochner v. New York, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Frances E. Willard, "Wet" and "Dry" 6. TR's Square Deal for Labor · What were the three C's of the Square Deal? · Use: Department of Commerce and Labor 7. TR Corrals the Corporations · Assess the following statement, "Teddy Roosevelt's reputation as a trustbuster is undeserved." · Use: Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Trustbusting, Northern Securities Company 8. Caring for the Consumer · What was the effect of Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle? · Use: Meat Inspection Act 9. Earth Control · What factors led Americans to take an active interest in conservation? · Use: Forest Reserve Act, Gifford Pinchot, Newlands Act, Call of the Wild, Boy Scouts, Sierra Club 10. The "Roosevelt Panic" of 1907 · What were the results of the Roosevelt Panic of 1907? 11. The Rough Rider Thunders Out · What was the legacy of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency? · Use: William Howard Taft, Eugene V. Debs 12. Taft: A Round Peg in a Square Hole · "William Howard Taft was less suited for the presidency than he appeared to be." Explain 13. The Dollar Goes Abroad as a Diplomat · What was dollar diplomacy and how was it practiced? 14. Taft the Trustbuster · Who deserves the nickname "Trustbuster," Roosevelt or Taft? · Use: Rule of Reason 15. Taft Splits the Republican Party · Why did the Progressive wing of the Republican Party turn against Taft? · Use: Payne-Aldrich Tariff, Richard Ballinger, Gifford Pinchot, Joe Cannon 16. The Taft-Roosevelt Rupture · How did the Republican Party split at the party's 1912 convention? |
Be sure to know and understand the following terms from Chapter 28
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