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Uploaded by on Jun 6, 2010

AP United States History Project - Inspired by We Didn't Start The Fire By Billy Joel

Lyrics below:

Big Stick Diplomacy. Death of Susan Anthony
First World Series, Oklahoma, United States Steel
Will McKinley, Meat Inspection, Federal Bureau of Investigation
William Taft, Cuban War, Panama Canal

Roosevelt Corollary, Stay out of our territory
Bull Moose, Hay-Herran, Panama Becomes our Land
Agreement of Gentlemen, Boxer Rebellion
Penny Changed, Teddy Shot, Finishes His Ardent Speech

Welcome to the Progressive Era
Teddy's Busting Trusts
Making them eat Dust
Welcome to the Progressive Era
He's Conserving Land
He deserves a hand

Ford Motor Company, Great Train Robbery
Assembly Line, Exposure Time, Both brand new techniques
US Upward Population, Act of Newlands Reclamation
Hepburn Act, Vreeland Act, Both affect our dime

Wright Bros. Fly a plane, World will never be the same
First Rose Bowl, Niagara Falls, Progressives Answer all the calls

TR Receives Peace Prize, Coal mine explodes, Hundreds Die
Carlisle-Army, Thorpe wins singlehandedly

Welcome to the Progressive Era
Teddy's Busting Trusts
Making them eat Dust
Welcome to the Progressive Era
He's conserving Land
He deserves a hand

Dollar Diplomacy, Change in Foreign Policy
Boy Scouts, Mann Act, NAACP
Fat Man stuck in Tub, Taxes pay to help him scrub
Ty Cobb is a snob, Titanic goes down

16th income tax, Eugene Debs Gets the Ax
Robert Peary North Pole, Standard Oil split from whole
More trusts, gone to stay, Arizona comes our way
Pinchot- Ballinger, Progressive Party Civil War

Welcome to the Progressive Era
Taft's Busting Trusts
Praise for him's a must
Welcome to the Progressive Era
We're sending loans afar
Taft's raisin' the bar

Red Sox win the game, Birth of a Nation is quite lame
Carrie Chapman, Alice Paul, Women try to stand up tall
Washington, Du Bois, African Americans have a choice
Who to Follow? What to Say? Problems never go away

Wilson gets the peace prize, gets a stroke, almost dies
Babe Ruth traded away, Red Sox fans will rue the day

Welcome to the Progressive Era
Moral Diplomacy
Keeps our whole world free
Welcome to the Progressive Era
Saving our money
Federal Reserve Policy

Alliances cover the land, Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand
War Breaks out, Countries Pout, US Drifts Away

Lusitania, Arabic, torpedo strikes Sussex
Propaganda, Allied Loans, Failed Peace Settlements

George Creel, 'Hate the Hun', Telegraph of Zimmermann
Fourteen Points, Gets Knocked Down, League of Nations gone

Trench War, Millions Dead, Palmer Raids Fight the Red
Schenck, Sedition, Service Act, Men Return to take jobs back

Great War Erupts in Europe
We had to join it
To protect us from it
Progressivism keeps on fighting
It'll still move on
Righting wrongs, and wrongs (9x)

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  • gread vid! using this for a project!

  • That was very good. Thank you gentlemen.

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