Honors American History
Unit 2:  The Progressive Response

Reading Schedule
In preparation
for class on…	Read…	Identify…	
Terms in bold print should be identified using the “CaDRES” format. Non-bold terms should be described or defined.	
Thursday
September 27	4.1
Progressives Drive Reform	RC – Describe Progressive beliefs
RC – Describe some of the goals of the Progressives (What problems
   did they seek to solve?)
muckrakers
RC – Describe the work of these muckrakers: Steffens, Riis, Sinclair
RC – Describe settlement houses
direct primary
initiative, referendum, recall
17th Amendment	
Tuesday
October 2	4.4
Reformers in the White House: Roosevelt
[Stop at “A New Direction...”]	TR’s intervention in the 1902 coal strike
Square Deal
RC – How did TR's administration regulate the railroads?
RC – Explain how TR differentiated between a "good" and a "bad"
   trust. (Discuss the Northern Securities case.)
RC – Explain the difference between conservation and preservation of
   the environment (What was TR's perspective?)	
Friday
October 5	4.4
Reformers in the White House: Taft and Wilson
[Start at “A New Direction…”]	RC – Describe several of Taft’s actions that upset TR and split the
   Republican party
RC – Summarize the Election of 1912 (Describe all three candidates)
RC – Describe ways Wilson attacked the “triple wall of privilege”
RC – Identify ways Wilson both helped and hurt labor
RC – Summarize the Progressives’ legacy	
Tuesday
October 9		Mid-Unit 2 Quiz	
Wednesday
October 10	4.3 (&1.3)
Striving for Equality (African Americans & Immigrants)
	Jim Crow laws (1.3)
poll tax, literacy tests, grandfather clauses (1.3)
Plessy v. Ferguson (4.3)
RC - Compare & contrast Booker T. Washington’s vs. W.E.B. DuBois’ approaches to segregation and discrimination of blacks (1.3 & 4.3)
Ida Wells (1.3)
National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)	
Friday
October 12	4.2
Women Gain Rights	RC – Describe some challenges women faced at the turn of the century
temperance movement
suffrage
RC – C&C the women’s suffrage movement before and after 1910
19th Amendment	
Thursday & Friday, October 18 & 19 – Unit 2 Test (The Progressive Response)	

	
Essay Questions
You will be expected to answer several of these questions in essay form on the unit test, in class, and/or at home.

1)  Analyze the effectiveness of Progressive reforms in each of the following areas:  limiting the power of big
	business, protecting laborers and the lower/middle classes, creating a more democratic society, improving
	daily living and/or urban life.

2)  To what extent did African Americans secure the full benefits of the 13th, 14th, and/or 15th Amendments
	between 1875 and 1925?

3)  Compare and contrast the strategies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois for dealing with racial
	discrimination and segregation.

4)	To what extent did the lives of women improve between 1875 and 1925?

Ohio’s Learning Standards
The following content statements from Ohio’s Learning Standards (2012) will be studied in this unit.

The Progressive era was an effort to address the ills of American society stemming from industrial capitalism, urbanization and political corruption.  (CS #14)

Following Reconstruction, old political and social structures reemerged and racial discrimination was institutionalized.  (CS #13)