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=Study Guide for the Progressive Era=

 =**The Progressive Era**=

Section 1: The Drive for Reform

 * Guiding Questions**
 * What were the //causes// of progressivism?
 * What role did journalists play in the progressive movement?
 * What types of issues did the progressives tackle?
 * What did progressives achieve at the state and local level?


 * Note Taking Guidelines**
 * Create a cause web for the progressive era. Identify the major ideas and people which contributed to this movement.


 * Terms**
 * progressivism
 * trusts
 * muckrakers
 * Upton Sinclair and the Jungle
 * Social Gospel
 * Jane Addams and settlement houses (Hull House)
 * Florence Kelley and child labor
 * John Dewey and education
 * Direct primary
 * Initiative, referendum, recall
 * Seventeen Amendment

Section 2: Women Make Progress

 * Guiding Questions**
 * How did changes in women’s education affect their role in society?
 * What contributions did women make to the progressive era?
 * What strategies did women use to win the right to vote?


 * Note Taking Guidelines**
 * Create a graphic organizer illustrating //how// women achieved the right to vote.
 * Terms**
 * Florence Kelley & the National Consumers League
 * Temperance Movement
 * Margaret Sanger
 * Carrie Chapman Catt & the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
 * Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party(NWP)
 * Nineteenth Amendment (most important!)



Section 3: The Struggle Against Discrimination

 * Guiding Questions**
 * How did progressives view the issue of minority rights?
 * What steps did African Americans take to tackle ongoing social programs and discrimination? Were they successful?
 * How did the views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois compare on the issue of civil rights?
 * Note Taking Guidelines**
 * Create a graphic organizer which illustrates how African Americans organized for greater rights.
 * Terms**
 * //Plessy v. Ferguson //(1896)
 * Booker T. Washington
 * W.E.B. Du Bois
 * Niagara Movement
 * National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)



**Section 4: Roosevelt’s Square Deal**

 * Guiding Questions**
 * What were Teddy Roosevelt’s ideas about government?
 * How did Roosevelt change the role of government in the economy?
 * How did Roosevelt change the role of the presidency?


 * Note Taking Guidelines**
 * Create a graphic organizer which illustrates the major ideas included in Roosevelt’s Square Deal.
 * Terms**
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Square Deal
 * Trust Busting
 * Pennsylvania Coal Strike (1902)
 * Hepburn Act
 * Northern Securities Railroad Company
 * Meat Inspection Act
 * Pure Food and Drug Act
 * National Reclamation Act

Section 5: Wilson’s New Freedom

 * Guiding Questions**
 * What were Wilson’s ideas about government?
 * How did he try to regulate the economy?
 * What impact did his policies have on government? on the presidency?
 * Note Taking Guidelines**
 * Create a graphic organizer which illustrates the major ideas and policies included in Wilson’s New Freedom.
 * Terms**
 * Woodrow Wilson
 * New Freedom
 * “Triple Wall of Privilege”
 * Sixteenth Amendment
 * Underwood Tariff Act
 * Federal Reserve Act
 * Federal Trade Commission
 * Clayton Antitrust Act