1. James L. Roark Michael P. Johnson Patricia Cline Cohen Sarah Stage Susan M. Hartmann CHAPTER 21 Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916 The American Promise A History of the United States Fifth Edition Copyright © 2012 by Bedford/St. Martin's

2. I. Grassroots Progressivism A. Civilizing the City 1. The settlement house movement 2. The social gospel 3. The social purity movement 4. Temperance 5. Progressive attitudes

3. I. Grassroots Progressivism B. Progressives and the Working Class 1. The Women’s Trade Union League 2. The uprising of twenty thousand 3. The Triangle fire 4. Protective legislation 5. The National Consumers League

4. II. Progressivism: Theory and Practice A. Reform Darwinism and Social Engineering 1. Challenging social Darwinism 2. Efficiency and expertise 3. Scientific management B. Progressive Government: City and State 1. Thomas Loftin Johnson in Cleveland 2. Robert M. La Follette in Wisconsin 3. Hiram Johnson in California

5. III. Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt A. The Square Deal 1. Roosevelt’s rise to power 2. Trust busting 3. Mediating labor disputes 4. The election of 1904 and the Square Deal

7. III. Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt B. Roosevelt the Reformer 1. Mandate for reform 2. The Hepburn Act 3. Muckraking 4. Economic panic in 1907 C. Roosevelt and Conservation 1. Conserving natural resources 2. Congressional backlash

12. III. Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt D. The Big Stick 1. Foreign policy and executive power 2. The Panama Canal 3. The Roosevelt Corollary 4. A rising force in world affairs 5. Brokering peace with Japan

16. III. Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt E. The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft 1. A lawyer with no feel for politics 2. The tariff issue 3. Alienating Roosevelt 4. Progressive reform in Congress 5. Dollar diplomacy 6. Roosevelt’s criticism

19. IV. Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide A. Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912 1. The Republican primaries 2. The Bull Moose Party 3. Four Progressives 4. “The new nationalism” versus “The new freedom”

21. IV. Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide B. Wilson’s Reforms: Tariff, Banking, and the Trusts 1. The Underwood Tariff 2. The Federal Reserve Act 3. The Clayton Act and the FTC 4. A mission fulfilled? C. Wilson, Reluctant Progressive 1. “Special privileges to none” 2. About face in 1916

23. V. The Limits of Progressive Reform A. Radical Alternatives 1. The Socialist Party 2. The Industrial Workers of the World 3. Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement

24. V. The Limits of Progressive Reform B. Progressivism for White Men Only 1. Woman suffrage 2. Racism in the South and West 3. The Atlanta Compromise 4. Constitutional racism 5. The rise of W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP