Reading Guide Answer these questions as you read the chapter. Chapter 9 Section 1:
1. What were the four primary goals of the progressives?
2. Prohibitionist groups felt something was undermining American morals – what?
3. What became, by 1911, the largest women’s group in the nation’s history?
4. Why were many immigrants opposed to the efforts of the Anti – Saloon League?
5. Who were the “muckrakers”?
6. Whose time and motion studies became the foundation of “scientific management?”
7. How much did Henry Ford pay his workforce in the early 1900s?
8. What was “Fighting Bob” La Follette’s major target of his reforms as governor of Wisconsin?
9. The Seventeenth amendment called for the direct, popular election of:
Chapter 9 Section 2:
10. In the late Nineteenth century, what percentage of college educated women remained unmarried?
11. Who were the co – founders of the National Women Suffrage Association?
12. Why was the liquor industry opposed to women’s suffrage?
13. Where (territory or state) did women first win the right to vote?
Chapter 9 Section 3:
14. Who was the author of The Jungle?
15. Why was Theodore Roosevelt chosen to be William McKinley’s Vice – Presidential running mate in 1900?
16. Whose progressive reforms were named the “Square Deal?”
17. Which president became known as the “trustbuster?”
18. Who intervened in the coal strike of 1902, forcing both sides to show up at the White House, ending the strike?
19. What two acts of Congress, passed at Teddy Roosevelt’s urging, gave the ICC the power to regulate railroads?
20. Who was seen as the first “Conservationist President?”
21. What civil rights organization was established in New York City in 1909?
Chapter 9 Section 4:
22. Who promised, during the presidential election of 1908. to lower tariffs, then raised them once taking office?
23. Who was nominated for the presidency by the Progressive Party (“Bull Moose Party”)?
24. Who became the president as a result of the Election of 1912?
Chapter 9 Section 5:
25. Whose presidential programs became known as the “New Freedom?”
26. What antitrust legislation, enacted by Congress in 1914, gave the federal gov’t greater powers to “bust” trusts?
27. What constitutional amendment, ratified in 1913, legalized a federal income tax?
28. What act of Congress established the Federal Reserve System – still in use today?
29. What constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920, granted suffrage to women?
30. Whose election as president led to segregation of public buildings in Washington, D.C.?
31. What European war brought an end to the Progressive movement?
______________________________________ Stu # ___________ Due Date___________ Chapter # ____9______ Chapter Title ____The Progressive Era____________
List the sections of this chapter.
List who you think were the three most important people mentioned in this chapter. For each state why you included them.
List and define three new words you learned in this chapter.
Answer these question(s) __#2_(critical thinking)__ from the Chapter review on page__338___.
AFTER READING THE ENTIRE CHAPTER ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
5. What role did women and journalists play in initiating progressive reform?
6. How successful were progressive reformers at the urban, state, and national levels?
7. What were the consequences and limitations of Progressive reform?
8. What were the successes and failures of the women's rights movement? it.
TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS FOR UNIT 2 9
Unit 2, The progressive reform unit is chapter 9 from the text.
Chapter 9 pages 304 to 339
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