American Studies Senior Seminar: Weekly Assignment #3

Progressivism and the Era of WWI (1900-1915)

Using your text, the internet or a basic American history text of your choice, review and be prepared to talk about the following topics by the time of our meeting next week

1) William James and Pragmatism

2) John Dewey and American Education

3) Henry Demarest Lloyd's "Wealth Against Commonwealth" (1894)

4) Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

5) Gifford Pinchot

6) Robert La Follette

7) Louis Sullivan and the Bauhaus movement

8) Joseph G. Cannon

9) The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments

10) The Standard Oil Case of 1912

11) Herbert Croly's "The Promise of American Life"

12) The Underwood Tariff

13) The Federal Reserve Act of 1913

14) The Clayton Anti-Trust Act

15) Justice Louis Brandeis

16) Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois