Compelling Question: How did the Progressive vision shape American politics, society, and foreign policy from 1898 to 1917?

Chapter Objectives:

• Students will understand how Progressive reforms expanded the role of government in the American economy and society.
• Students will understand how Progressive ideas helped shape America’s expanding presence around the globe.
• Students will compare and contrast the Progressive understanding of the scale, scope, and purpose of government with that of the Founders.

• Ida M. Tarbell’s Crusade against Standard Oil Narrative
• Alice Paul and the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage Narrative
• Westward Expansion and the Quest to Conserve Narrative
• Jim Crow and Progressivism Narrative
• Lewis Hine, Photographs Documenting Child Labor, 1908 Primary Source
• Upton Sinclair,The Jungle, 1906 Primary Source
• Elihu Root vs. William Jennings Bryan on Women’s Suffrage, 1894-1914 Primary Source
• Carrie Chapman Catt, Open Address to the U.S. Congress, 1917 Primary Source
• Women’s Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment Lesson
• The Progressive Movement DBQ Lesson

• Remember theMaine! Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders Narrative
• The Panama Canal Narrative
• Cartoon Analysis: “A Lesson for Anti-Expansionists”, Victor Gillam, 1899 Primary Source
• America Enters World War I Narrative
• The Philippine-American War Narrative
• Over There: The U.S. Soldier in World War I Narrative
• The Treaty of Versailles Decision Point
• Redfield Proctor vs. Mark Twain on American Imperialism, 1898-1906 Primary Source
• The Espionage Act of 1917 Primary Source
• George M. Cohan, “Over There”, 1917 Primary Source
• Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, 1918 Primary Source
• Schenck v. United States DBQ Lesson

• Speaker Joseph Cannon Dethroned Narrative
• Wilsonian Progressivism Narrative
• The Election of 1912 Decision Point
• Did the Progressive Movement Diverge from Founding Principles and Did It Affect the Purpose of Government? Point-Counterpoint

Additional Resources:

• Chapter 10 Introductory Essay: 1898-1919
• The Great Migration Narrative
• Business and Advertising in the Early Twentieth Century, 1910-1917 Primary Source