The Progressive

Objectives:

* Analyze the roots of progressivism and its components.

* Examine the part played by women in progressive reform. Contrast their

approach to progressive reform and how it related to the established, home

oriented roles of women in the society of the era.

* Discuss the reasons why consumer protection and environmental conservation

served as middle class concerns. Why did progressives like Theodore Roosevelt

promote these issues?

* Explain how Woodrow Wilson's personality served as both a help and hindrance

in his political life.

* Discuss the situation of the United States on the eve of the First World War.

Describe how both Germany and the Allied nations attempted to bring the United

States out of its renewed isolationism.

* Examine the rather new concept of propaganda and how it was utilized by the

nations involved in the Great War.

* Describe how propaganda was used to influence American public opinion to

include targeting certain political and ethnic groups within the United States.

Industrialization and the social and economic problems that it was responsible for were

viewed by the progressives as issues best addressed by the governmental powers.

Though only moderately progressive, Theodore Roosevelt's administration gained

national recognition for the movement completing its evolution from the city level to

national prominence.

William Howard Taft, once supported by Roosevelt, reverted back to the so-called

Republican Old Guard compelling Roosevelt to create a third political party.

The progressive movement of the early twentieth century was equaled in magnitude only

by the abolitionist movement of the early and mid-nineteenth century.

In the beginning the primary target of Progressivism was political reform beginning