UNIT 10
The Progressive Era
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1890
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1920
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19th Century - 20th Century
People to Know
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Vocabulary
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Peardeck™
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Unit Guide
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An assassin's bullet places vice president Theodore Roosevelt in the president's seat. This American lion reshapes the executive branch making the presidency relevant once more and bringing the Progressive Movement to the national stage.
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Vocabulary - Square Deal, Sherman Antitrust Act, Northern Securities v. U.S., Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act, Antiquities Act, trustbuster Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft
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Corruption in America again takes center stage as journalists across the country expose this corruption to the public. From social and political issues to the treatment of African Americans, America was ripe and ready for change
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Vocabulary - muckrakers, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, secret ballot, direct primaries, initiative, referendum, recall, disenfranchised, "Jim Crow" laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, NAACP, Great Migration Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Robert LaFollette, Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois
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Competing against a divided Republican Party. Woodrow Wilson becomes the second Democrat elected since the Civil War adding his own take to the Progressive Movement.
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Vocabulary - Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party), New Freedom, Underwood Tariff, 16th Amendment, Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission, 17th Amendment, 18th Amendment, 19th Am Woodrow Wilson, Carry Nation
