Transcript The American Promise

Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson
The American Promise:
A History of the United States
Fourth Edition
CHAPTER 21
Progressivism from the Grass Roots
to the White House
1890–1916
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
Grassroots Progressivism
• Civilizing the City
• Progressives and the Working Class
Progressivism: Theory and Practice
• Reform Darwinism and Social Engineering
• Progressive Government: City and State
Progressivism Finds a President:
Theodore Roosevelt
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The Square Deal
Roosevelt the Reformer 760
Roosevelt and Conservation
The Big Stick
Progressivism Stalled
• The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft
• Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism
at High Tide
• Wilson’s Reforms: Tariff, Banking, and the Trusts
• Wilson, Reluctant Progressive
The Limits of Progressive Reform
• Radical Alternatives
• Progressivism for White Men Only
Chapter 21
Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the
White House: 1890–1916
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Map 21.1 National Parks and Forests (p. 764)
Map 21.2 The Panama Canal, 1914 (p. 769)
Map 21.3 The Election of 1912 (p. 772)
Theodore Roosevelt (p. 757)
The Jungle (p. 761)
“The World’s Constable” (p. 765)
William Howard Taft (p. 770)
Progressive Poster Condemning Child Labor (p. 775)
IWW poster (p. 777)
Margaret Sanger’s Brownsville Birth Control Clinic (p. 777)