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Unit 10-Progressivism & Reform

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ACT EOC C.2.a-C.2.c
  • Identify and explain significant issues and components of the Populist movement and their impacts.
  • Explain the origins and accomplishments of the Progressive Movement.
  • Analyze the efforts to achieve women’s suffrage in the early 1900s.


At the end of the 1800s, reforms began in both the rural and urban US. The Populist and Progressive movements were at the heart of the momentum to change the United States through policy, amendments, and presidential leadership.







[At left, a meat packing house in Chicago]


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Vocabulary

  • Populism
  • Greenback
  • Inflation
  • Deflation
  • Grange
  • Cooperative
  • People's Party
  • Graduated Income Tax
  • Goldbug
  • Silverite
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • 'Cross of Gold' Speech
  • Henry George
  • Lester Frank Ward
  • Edward Bellamy
  • Naturalism
  • Jane Addams
  • Settlement House
  • Hull House
  • Americanization
  • Progressivism
  • Muckraker
  • Jacob Riis
  • Commission Plan
  • Robert La Follette
  • Direct Primary
  • Initiative
  • Referendum
  • Recall
  • Suffrage
  • Alice Paul
  • Temperance
  • Prohibition
  • Socialism
  • Square Deal
  • Northern Securities
  • United Mine Workers
  • Arbitration
  • Hepburn Act
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Joseph G. Cannon
  • Payne-Aldrich Tariff
  • Richard Ballinger
  • Syndicate
  • Insubordination
  • Progressive Party
  • New Nationalism
  • New Freedom
  • Income Tax
  • Federal Reserve Act
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • Unfair Trade Practices
  • NAACP
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U10 Vocabulary
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U10-A Progressivism
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U10 Oz
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U10B Progressivism
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Big Ideas

  • Explain why farmers wanted a greenback currency and why the adoption of the gold standard led to the Farmers' Alliance.
  • Describe who joined the Populist Party and what the party's goals were.
  • Explain the methods that social critics advocated to improve society.
  • Evaluate efforts to help the urban poor.
  • Discuss the rise of the Progressive Movement.
  • Evaluate the impact of initiative, recall, referendum, and the 17th Amendment.
  • Describe various efforts to regulate concentrated corporate power.
  • Discuss Theodore Roosevelt's interest in environmental conservation.
  • Explain how Theodore Roosevelt helped get Taft elected.
  • Discuss why progressives were disappointed with Taft as president.
  • Describe Wilson's economic and social reforms.
  • Evaluate the legacy of the Progressive Movement.


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