HIST 102: Chapter 18 Reading Guide

Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People

Instructions

This reading guide is designed to help you understand and engage with the key ideas in Chapter 18: The Progressive Era, 1900–1917. For each question below, please follow these steps:

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Review Question 1

On Page 547, find the sentence beginning with the words: "Progressives included forward-looking..."

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Identify the main groups and ideas that drove the Progressive movement.

Review Question 2

On Page 549, find the sentence beginning with the words: "Progressive-era immigration formed..."

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Explain how immigration to the United States in this period was part of a global movement of peoples.

Review Question 3

On Page 552, find the sentence beginning with the words: "The process enabled..."

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Describe how Fordism transformed American industrial and consumer society.

Review Question 4

On Page 555, find the sentence beginning with the words: "By 1912, the..."

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Socialism was a rising force across the globe in the early twentieth century. How successful was the movement in the United States?

Review Question 5

On Page 558, find the sentence beginning with the words: "Part trade union,..."

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Explain why the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) grew so rapidly and aroused so much opposition.

Review Question 6

On Page 551, find the sentence beginning with the words: "The new immigrants..."

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How did immigrants adjust to life in America? What institutions or activities became important to their adjustment, and why?

Review Question 7

On Page 560, find the sentence beginning with the words: "For the generation..."

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What did Progressive-era feminists want to change in society, and how did their actions help to spearhead broader reforms?

Review Question 8

On Page 568, find the sentence beginning with the words: "These maternalist reforms..."

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How did ideas of women's roles, shared by maternalist reformers, lead to an expansion of activism by and rights for women?

Review Question 9

On Page 561, find the sentence beginning with the words: "A new generation..."

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How did Progressive-era Native Americans organize, and what were their aims?

Review Question 10

On Page 569, find the sentence beginning with the words: "Each in his..."

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How did each Progressive-era president view the role of the federal government?

Review Question 11

On Page 574, find the sentence beginning with the words: "Being a proper..."

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According to Theodore Roosevelt, what were the qualities that made for "the right type of good citizenship"?

Review Question 12

On Page 565, find the sentence beginning with the words: "The Progressive era..."

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Pick a Progressive-era reform (a movement, a specific legislation, or an organization) and describe how it shows how Progressives could work for both the expansion of democracy and restrictions on it.