#1: The text says that progressivism was less a minority movement than a dominant majority mood. What were the basic social and political conditions that created that reforming mood, and what diverse people and ideas were all sheltered under the broad progressive umbrella?

• Progressive Roots

– GLP | Populists | Laissez-faire

– Lloyd, Veblen, Riis, and Dreiser

– Socialists and Muckrakers

– Cleanse Capitalism | More Democracy *

• The IWW Seeks Subscribers, 1911

• This poster aimed to attract subscribers to Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW was a small but vocal radical labor union that hoped to unify American workers in “one big union,” irrespective of their particular jobs, gender, or race. Its motto was “An injury to one is an injury to all.” At its peak in 1923, the union claimed 100,000 members, commonly known as Wobblies, and could marshal the support of some 300,000 more, mostly workers on the docks and in mines, lumbering, and textiles.

#2: What did the progressive movement accomplish at the local, state, and national levels? How did women contribute to and benefit from the movement? • Political Progressivism

– initiative, referendum, and recall | 17th amendment

• Progressivism in the Cities and States

• Progressive Women

– Settlement House Movement

– Separate Spheres

– Muller v. Oregon (1908) | Lochner v. N.Y. (1905) *

#3: The text says that Theodore Roosevelt sought to tame unbridled capitalism without fundamentally altering the American economic system. How do his policies regarding the trusts, labor, and consumer protection reflect this middle way? Why was Roosevelt regarded with hostility by many industrialists even though he sought to reform rather than attack them? • TR’s Square Deal for Labor

• TR Corrals the Corporations

• Caring for the Consumer | Earth Control *

• Roosevelt Tames the Trusts

• Legend to the contrary, Roosevelt did not attack all trusts indiscriminately. Rather, he pursued a few high-profile cases against a handful of corporate giants, in order to “tame” other businesses into accepting government regulation.

• High Point for Conservation

• Roosevelt and famed naturalist John Muir visit Glacier Point, on the rim of Yosemite Valley, California. In the distance is Yosemite Falls; a few feet behind Roosevelt is a sheer drop of 3,254 feet.

• The Machine and Nature

• These hardy sightseers at the Grand Canyon in 1911 ironically and probably unwittingly foreshadowed the mass tourism that arrived with the dawning automobile age. Soon millions of motorized Americans would regularly flee from the cities and suburbs to “get away from it all” in wilderness sites increasingly overrun by their fellow refugees from “civilization.”

#4: What caused the Taft-Roosevelt split, and how did it reflect the growing division between Old Guard and progressive Republicans?

• The “Roosevelt Panic” of 1907

• The Rough Rider Thunders Out

• Taft: A Round Peg in a Square Hole

• The Dollar Goes Abroad as a Diplomat

• Taft the Trustbuster

• Taft Splits the Republican Party

• The Taft-Roosevelt Rupture *