American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Objectives

1. The origins and varieties of the progressive impulse.

2. The social justice reforms of the period, and the role of the church in carrying out the Social Gospel.

3. The progressive emphasis on scientific expertise, organizational reform, and professionalism.

4. The role of women and women's organizations in promoting reform.

5. The significance of the women's suffrage movement.

6. The desire of the progressives to limit the role of political party organizations, and the measures they advocated to accomplish this goal.

7. The temperance movement and its relationship to other progressive reforms.

8. The origins of the NAACP and the importance of W. E. B. DuBois.

9. The movement to restrict immigration and how restricting immigration was regarded as a reform.

10. The alternate approaches to the problems of the trusts: socialism, regulation, or trust busting.

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