Courses
History 208: History of the USA, Part II
11. Progressivism, I
Immigration
“Old” Immigration
“New” Immigration
Nativism
Who is an American?
Urbanization
Progressivism
What? When? Whence? Whither?
Women and the Progressive Mvt.
Background: Lochner v. NY (1905)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
12. Progressivism, II
State and Local Progressivism
Referendum, Initiative, Recall
City Management
Urbanization/Immigration (cont’d)
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel Movement
Jacob Riis
Jane Addams
Victorian Values
Civic Virtue
Gender Spheres
13. Progressivism, III
National Progressivism
African Americans amid Progressivism
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Furguson (1896)Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
White Perspectives of Blacks
14. Progressivism, IV
19C Diplomacy
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Manifest Destiny (mid 1800s)
Spanish-American War (1898)
20C Diplomacy
Open Door Policy (1899)
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
TR’s Corollary and Panama
Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
Wilson’s Progressivism
15. The Great War
WWI Over There
Causes of World War in Europe
Prompts for U.S. Involvement
U.S. Military Mobilization
WWI Over Here
Paying the Bill
CPI and 100% Americanism
Decline of Progressivism
The Diplomacy of Peace
Wilson’s 14 Points
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
16. Social Decadence
Progressive Era Amendments
Define “Progressivism”
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
Social Decadence
Bootleggers, gangsters, speakeasies, flappers
Margaret Sanger:
“No Gods. No Masters.”
Birth Control, Abortion, Eugenics, and Divorce
Modernism and Fundamentalism
Their Origins and Purposes Compared
Tennessee v. Scopes (1925)
17. Prosperity and Depression
Return of Laissez Faire
3 Kinds of Liberalism
Coolidge's Capitalism vs. Hoover's Individualism
The Great Depression
The Great 20s Myth?
Prosperous Prelude
Economic Crash
Widespread Poverty and Despair
Hoover's Struggle
18. Review of Part II
Immigration
Gerschwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"
National Origin's Act (1924)
Review for Exam II
