AP WIRE Assignment Week of February 27, 2012
Summary of the Progressive Movement
Due Monday, March 5th by 11:00 pm (extended due date)
DIRECTIONS:  Please complete the chart  below based on your guided reading from Chapter #28 (The Progressive Movement in American History); the links provided and your independent research.

RESOURCE LINKS
American Pageant Chapter 28 and 29  (on-line textbook http://apushripon.webs.com/pageant_files.html)

Talking History Podcast: The Progressive Movement -  Michael McGerr, has written a book on what many historians believe is the greatest reform movement in American history--the Progressive Movement. President Theodore Roosevelt referred to the time as a period of "fierce discontent with evil." McGerr is interviewed by Talking History’s Jim Madison. Airdate: March 1, 2004.

TASK #1 The Populist Legacy

America's third parties have been immensely important to the country as catalysts of political and social progress. They have come in all sorts of shapes and colors. Some have aimed at a single issue such as slavery or drinking. Some have been driven by the popularity of an individual such as Teddy Roosevelt or Ross Perot. Throughout the nineteenth century, third parties such as the Prohibition Party, Greenback Party and the Populist Party evolved from widespread anti party sentiment and a belief that governance should attend to the public good rather than partisan agendas.  Review this chart of Third Party Movements and identify the principles of the Populists Party (late 19th century) that eventually became part of the Progressive reform agenda (early 20th century). 

TASK #2 Progressive Reforms

Often a broad historicial movement, such as progressivism, can be best understood by breaking it down into various component parts. Among the variety of progressive reform discussed in this topic are  political progressivism,  economic or industrial progressivism,  consumer progressivism, and environment progressivism. Put each of the the progressive acts, policies, or court cases into one of the above categories

 ACTS                                           Progressive Reforms