Module 6 E-text Reading: Chapters 18-20
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Chapter Eighteen: The Progressive Era (543–573)
Keep in mind as you read and take notes that some of these terms may be expanded on or only be found in
the course lessons. Be sure to keep these notes handy to take further notes as you go through your lessons.
Big Ideas and Essential Questions:
1. Why was the city such a central element in Progressive America?
2. How did the labor and women’s movements expand the meanings of American freedom?
3. In what ways did Progressivism include both democratic and antidemocratic impulses?
4. How did immigrants adjust to life in America? What institutions or activities became important
to their adjustment, and why?
5. How did each Progressive era president view the role of the federal government?
People and Groups: Events: Describe the event, Ideas-Places-Things:
instrumental people, its causes,
and its effects.
● American Federation of ● 16th Amendment ● Angel Island
Labor (AFL) ● 17th Amendment ● birth control movement
● Industrial Workers of the ● Election of 1912 ● conservation movement
World (IWW) ● Lawrence strike ● Ellis Island
● Mary “Mother” Jones ● Muller v. Oregon ● Federal Trade
● Society of American ● Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Commission
Indians ● feminism
● Theodore Roosevelt ● Fordism
● William Howard Taft ● maternalist reforms
● Woodrow Wilson ● “muckraking”
● New Freedom
● New Nationalism
● Progressive era
immigration
● scientific management
● settlement houses
● “social legislation”
● Socialist Party
Chapter Nineteen: Safe for Democracy: The United States and
World War I (574–607)
Keep in mind as you read and take notes that some of these terms may be expanded on or only be found in
the course lessons. Be sure to keep these notes handy to take further notes as you go through your lessons.
Big Ideas and Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the Progressive presidents promote the expansion of American power
overseas?
2. How did the United States get involved in World War I?
3. How did the United States mobilize resources and public opinion for the war effort?
4. How did the war affect race relations in the United States?
5. What were the major causes—both real and imaginary—of the Red Scare?
6. Describe how World War I and the U.S. failure to join the League of Nations sowed the seeds of
future 20th-century wars.
People and Groups: Events: Describe the event, Ideas-Places-Things:
instrumental people, its causes,
and its effects.
● Committee on Public ● construction of the ● Americanization
Information (Creel Panama Canal ● Dollar Diplomacy
Committee) ● Great Migration ● Espionage Act of 1917
● Eugene V. Debs ● Niagara Movement ● Fourteen Points
● Marcus Garvey and ● 19th Amendment ● Gentlemen’s Agreement
Garveyites ● Prohibition of 1907
● Industrial Workers of the ● Red Scare of 1919–1920 ● “liberal internationalism”
World (IWW) ● sinking of the Lusitania ● “moral imperialism”
● Ku Klux Klan ● Versailles Treaty ● Roosevelt Corollary
● National Association for ● Zimmerman Telegram ● Sedition Act of 1918
the Advancment of ● Selective Service Act
Colored People (NAACP) ● War Industries Board
Chapter Twenty: From Business Culture to Great Depression
(608–638)
*Note that Module Six addresses pages 608–631. The content in pages 632–638 appears in Module
[Link] in mind as you read and take notes that some of these terms may be expanded on or only be
found in the course lessons. Be sure to keep these notes handy to take further notes as you go through your
lessons.
Big Ideas and Essential Questions:
1. Who benefitted and who suffered in the new consumer society of the 1920s?
2. In what ways did the government promote business interests in the 1920s?
3. Why did the protection of civil liberties gain importance in the 1920s?
4. What were the major flashpoints between fundamentalism and pluralism in the 1920s?
5. What were the causes of the Great Depression and how effective were the government’s
responses by 1932?
6. In what ways did the ideas about (and the reality of) proper roles for women change in
the post WWI years?
People and Groups: Events: Describe the event, Ideas-Places-Things:
instrumental people, its causes,
and its effects.
● American Civil Liberties ● Harlem Renaissance ● “100 percent
Union (ACLU) ● Immigration Act of 1924 Americanism”
● Communist Party ● Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) ● American Plan
● presidential election of ● “associational action”
1928 ● “clear and present
● Sacco-Vanzetti case danger”
● Scopes trial ● Equal Rights Amendment
● stock market crash (Black ● “flapper”
Tuesday) ● Fundamentalism
● “New Negro”
● Reconstruction Finance
Corporation
● “welfare capitalism”