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CHAPTER 20 – The Progressive Era

1. THE PROGRESSIVE IMPULSE

a. Varieties of Progressivism

b. The Muckrakers

c. The Social Gospel

d. The Settlement House Movement

e. The Allure of Expertise

f. The Professions

g. Women and the Professions

2. WOMEN AND REFORM

a. The “New Woman”

b. The Clubwoman

c. Woman Suffrage

3. THE ASSAULT ON THE PARTIES

a. Early Attacks

b. Municipal Reform

c. New Forms of Governance

d. Statehouse Progressivism

e. Parties and Interest Groups

4. SOURCES OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM

a. Labor, the Machine, and Reform

b. Western Progressives

c. African Americans and Reform

5. CRUSADE FOR SOCIAL ORDER AND REFORM

a. The Temperance Crusade

b. Immigration Restriction

6. CHALLENGING THE CAPITALIST ORDER

a. The Dream of Socialism

b. Decentralization and Regulation

7. THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE MODERN PRESIDENCY

a. The Accidental President

b. Government, Capital, and Labor

c. The “Square Deal”

d. Roosevelt and Conservation

e. Roosevelt and Preservation

f. The Hetch Hetchy Controversy

g. The Panic of 1907

8. THE TROUBLED SUCCESSION

a. Taft and the Progressives

b. The Return of Roosevelt

c. Spreading Insurgency

d. Roosevelt versus Taft

9. WOODROW WILSON AND THE NEW FREEDOM

a. Woodrow Wilson

b. The Scholar as President

c. Retreat and Advance

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• big business
• laisseze-faire capitalism
• monopolies
• settlement houses
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Gilded Age
• assimilation policies
• Social Gospel
• native born vs. new immigrants
• Progressive reformers
• Woodrow Wilson

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Theodore Roosevelt
• William Howard Taft
• suffrage
• 19th Amendment
• women's clubs
• Eugene V. Debs
• Square Deal
• John Muir
• Federal Reserve Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• trusts
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Alice Paul
• Bull Moose party
• eugenics
• Gifford Pinchot
• Hetch Hetchy
• Robert La Follette
• Social Gospel
• Triangle Shirtwaist Company
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Federal Reserve Bank
• Hull House
• IWW ("Wobblies")
• Jane Addams
• Louis Brandeis
• Muckrakers
• NAACP
• New Freedom
• New Nationalism
• Prohibition

Iron Jawed Angels

One Woman, One Vote

Reds

The Molly McGuires