Augustana College

HIST 121 and HIST 315

Concepts addressed: Progressive Era Through the New Deal 1900-1939

Timeline: Progressivism 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1893 Anti-Saloon League started 1904 Lincoln Steffens's The Shame of the Cities 1906 Upton Sinclair's The Jungle 1906 Meat Inspection Act 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act 1908 City-manager form of city government began 1908 Muller v. Oregon 1910 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire 1911 Anti-trust suit against U.S. Steel 1911 F.W. Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management 1911 Break-up of Standard Oil and American Tobacco 1913 Federal Reserve Act 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act

Period Goals & Key Concepts: Progressivism • Explain the causes and themes of progressive reform. • Compare and contrast the concepts of Populism and Progressivism. • Describe how Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson typified progressive thought. • Understand the legacy of progressive reforms.

Timeline: World War I Era 8/1914 World War I began in Europe 5/7/1915 Lusitania sunk 1916 Woodrow Wilson reelected 2/1917 Zimmerman telegram 2/1917 Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare 4/6/1917 United States declared war 1917 Espionage Act 1/1918 Wilson unveiled the Fourteen Points 1918 Sedition Act 11/1918 Armistice signed 1918-19 Spanish flu epidemic 1919-20 Red Scare

Period Goals & Key Concepts: World War I • Trace the road to US involvement in World War I. • Understand how modern technology changed the face of warfare. Development of this review sheet was made possible by funding from the US Department of Education through South Dakota’s EveryTeacher Teacher Quality Enhancement grant. • Explain the relationship between Wilsonian progressivism and entry into the war. • Detail dissent, from both radical and moderate forces, to US entry into WWI • Characterize the Red Scare and late war reactionism to a post-Lenin world.

Timeline: The 1920s 1920-27 Case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise 1920 Warren Harding elected 1920 Nineteenth Amendment ratified 1922 Herbert Hoover's American Individualism 1922 First radio commercial 1923 Harding died and Coolidge became president 1924 All Indians became citizens 1924 Coolidge elected president 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby 1927 Lindbergh's nonstop flight from New York to Paris 1928 Herbert Hoover elected president 1929 Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

Period Goals & Key Concepts: The 1920s • Explain the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, and its consequences. • Trace the rise of and results of Prohibition. • Highlight the literary achievements of the 1920 and how they typified the decade. • Trace the "republican ascendancy" of Harding & Coolidge. • Understand the relationship between politics and 1920s economic growth. • Characterize the "Roaring 20s" and aspects of society that did not "roar." • Explain the roots of and reactions to the stock market crash of 1929.

Timeline: The Depression 10/1929 Stock market crash 1930 Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation established 1932 Emergency Relief and Construction Act 1932 Bonus Army 11/1932 Roosevelt defeated Hoover 3/4/1933 Roosevelt inaugurated

Timeline: The New Deal Era 3-6/1933 Hundred Days 1933 Emergency Banking Relief Act 1933 CCC established 1933 First Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933 Tennessee Valley Act 1933 Federal Securities Act 1935 NIRA ruled unconstitutional 1935 Wagner Act or National Labor Relations 1935 Act Social Security Act Development of this review sheet was made possible by funding from the US Department of Education through South Dakota’s EveryTeacher Teacher Quality Enhancement grant. 1935 Revenue Act or Wealth Tax Act 1935 Huey Long assassinated 1936 U.S. v. Butler 1936 FDR reelected 1938 Second Agricultural Adjustment Act 1939 Gone with the Wind 1939 The Grapes of Wrath

Period Goals & Key Concepts: The New Deal • Outline the appeal and attitudes of the FOR administration. • Trace the pragmatism of New Deal legislation and the various programs. • Explain the reaction ism of the left and right to the New Deal.

Additional Terms I Concepts to Identify: 1900-1939 • "Okies" • Father Charles Coughlin • Dr. Francis Townsend • Jane Addams • Theodore Roosevelt • Henry Ford • Big Bill Haywood

Essay I Review Questions: 1900-1939

I. Historian Stephen Diner has said that as America moved into the 20th century "it looked as if all the rules had changed." Explain how the country was changing -- working around some larger themes (which may include [but not limited to]: industrialization, urbanization, immigration and reform).

II. How would you describe & characterize the 1920s? What were dominant themes during the decade regarding the economy and society? How were the 20s a period of transition from old ways to new ones?

III. The Great Depression shook the United States to its core. What led to this great economic and social crisis? Provide specific examples of its impacts on the country. Also, what were (before FDR's election) the responses to the Depression?

Development of this review sheet was made possible by funding from the US Department of Education through South Dakota’s EveryTeacher Teacher Quality Enhancement grant.