UNIT 2: The PROGRESSIVE ERA
1896-1920

“The NEW EMPIRE”

FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER
ALFRED THAYER MAHAN

“SOCIAL QUESTION”

MONROE DOCTRINE (1823)

MCKINLEY TARIFF (1890)

HAWAI’I (1893) &
VENEZUELA (1895)

The MAINE (15 FEB. 1898)

SPANISH-CUBAN-AMERICAN
-FILIPINO WAR (1898-1899)

OPEN DOOR (1899)

PLATT AMENDMENT (1901)

PANAMA CANAL (1903)

“NATION of NATIONS”

“ISLAND COMMUNITIES”

“SHOCK” CITIES

SKYSCRAPERS, SUBWAYS,
& SUBURBS

NEW IMMIGRANTS

The BOSS & the MACHINE

The GHETTO

DUMBBELL TENEMENTS

“EIGHT HOURS FOR
WHAT WE WILL”

ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE

SAFE & SANE

DANCE HALLS

CONEY ISLAND

“REACTION & REFORM”

RISE OF THE PROFESSIONS

LESTER FRANK WARD (1883)

JACOB REIS (1890)

JOSIAH STRONG (1891)

JOHN DEWEY (1888)

JANE ADDAMS (1889)

LINCOLN STEFFENS (1904)

UPTON SINCLAIR (1906)

MEAT INSPECTION ACT (1906)
PURE FOOD & DRUG ACT (1906)

CHILD LABOR
& PUBLIC EDUCATION

MUNICIPAL, STATE
& FEDERAL REFORM

“The WARRIOR & the PRIEST”

The “BULLY” PULPIT

NORTHERN SECURITIES (1902)

BUREAU of CORPORATIONS (1903)

INT’L HARVESTER (1903)

VENEZUELA (1903), DOM. REP.
& MANCHURIA (1905)

The ORDEAL of WM HOWARD TAFT

“DOLLAR DIPLOMACY” (1909)

ELECTION of 1912

FEDERAL RESERVE ACT (1913)

CLAYTON ACT (1914)

FED. TRADE COMMISSION (1914)

MEXICO & HAITI (1916)

“The ORDEAL of TOTAL WAR”

BALANCE of POWER

SARAJEVO (1914)

MUSTARD & CHLORINE (1915

SOMME (1916)

LUSITANIA (1915)

GREAT MIGRATIONS (1915)

ELECTION of 1916

CREEL COMMITTEE (1917)

ESPIONAGE ACT (1917)
SEDITION/SABOTAGE ACTS (1918)

HENRY FORD & HENRI PETAIN

ARTICLE X

RED SUMMER OF 1919

ELECTION of 1920

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