Unti+5

Unit 5. OBJECTIVES: • Explain grassroots progressivism including its proponents, and why they targeted the city for reform. Understand why activists formed alliances with the working class and under what circumstances those alliances proved successful. • Recognize the intellectual underpinnings of progressivism. Explain how reformers put the theories of reform Darwinism, pragmatism, and social engineering into action at both the local and state levels. • Understand how Theodore Roosevelt put progressivism into action as president, including his attitude toward trusts and big business. Outline his efforts as a conservationist and as a diplomat. • Identify the efforts that Taft made to stall progressive reform, and why progressives led an insurgent campaign during the election of 1912. Explain what factors accounted for Wilson’s victory in 1912. • Recognize how Wilson sought to enact his “New Freedom” once in office. Understand the reforms he supported, and his views on the tariff issue, banking, and trusts. Explain why Wilson earned the name “the reluctant Progressive.” • Understand the limits of progressive reform, and identify the organizations that offered more radical visions of America’s future. Consider why some critics charged the movement with advocating reform “for white men only.” Read Chapter 21, “Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916,” pp. 617-648. Watch video documentary “TriangleFire.”

1. Video Clip Screening and Analysis - Answer questions in the film. (post to blog) 2. History Workshop – (post to blog)

3. Journal – (post to blog)

**In what ways did Roosevelt’s domestic policies respond to progressive demands? (See section “Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt” in your textbook.)**
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