Chapter 28:

People:

Henry Demarest Lloyd, Thorstein Veblen, Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens, Theodore Dreiser, Ida Tarbell, Robert Lafollette, Hiram Johnson, Frances Willard, Florence Kelley, Upton Sinclair, Gifford Pinchot, Nelson Aldrich, William Howard Taft, Richard Ballinger

Terms:

Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Conservation, Muckrakers, Seventeenth Amendment, Eighteenth Amendment, Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Northern Securities case, Muller v. Oregon, Lochner v. Oregon, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Pure Food and Drug Act, Newlands Act, Sierra Club, Yosemite, Dollar diplomacy, New Nationalism, Ballinger Pinchot affair, Old Guard

Questions:

1. What were the roots of Progressivism? What were writers like Veblen, Lloyd, and Dreiser trying to point out about wealth in America? Why did Americans fear Socialists?
2. What was Sinclair’s purpose in writing The Jungle? What laws resulted from Sinclair’s book and what were the provisions of the acts?

Vocab and work for 28: Chapter 28 Work