Chapter XXIX: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

REVISED

  1. Who were the Progressives? What were they trying to accomplish?
  2. Why did Teddy Roosevelt label the "progressive writers" of this chapter, muckrakers?
  3. Why would J.D. Rockefeller be inclined to dislike Ida Tarbell?
  4. What kinds of political progressive reforms were enacted in the United States by 1925?
  5. How did TR modify the traditional government response to big business?
  6. Why did TR have the nickname, "trustbuster?" Did he deserve it?
  7. In Bailey and Kennedy's opinion, what was TR's greatest contribution as President? Are they correct in their judgement?
  8. Why did TR push Taft to become the GOP nominee for President in 1908? Why was he so disappointed with what Taft did?
  9. What was TR doing for the first two years of the Taft administration?
  10. How did Taft's foreign policy and reform records compare to Roosevelt's?
  11. Why did the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy reflect discreditably upon the Taft Administration?
  12. How and why did the GOP split in 1912? To what ultimate outcome?
  13. Why did Bailey and Kennedy refer to TR as the "Republican Roosevelt" in this chapter?
  14. Why does Gabriel Kolko think that the Progressive period in American History was a "Triumph for Conservatism?"
  15. Identify:
    • Richard Hofstadter
    • Bob La Follette
    • Hiram Johnson
    • Charles E.Hughes
    • John Muir
    • Puck
    • Pure Food and Drug Act
    • Northern Securities Case
    • Initiative
    • Referendum
    • Recall
    • Suffragettes
    • John Spargo
    • Lincoln Steffens
    • Jacob Riis
    • Henry Demarest Lloyd
    • The Square Deal.
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