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OpenStax

Open Stax: Progressive Movement: New Voices for Women and African Americans

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines how the women's rights movement began and how it evolved over time, followed by a look at the development of the African American civil rights movement and the different leaders that emerged during the Progressive Era.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Problem of Child Labor in the Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
After analyzing primary and secondary resources about the child labor, the students should be able to draw conclusions about the need to reform child labor practices.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Settlement Houses in the Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
The sources in this primary set document the establishment of settlement houses. Includes teaching guide.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: The Progresssive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This Grolier On-line Encyclopedia article hits the main points of the Progressive Era stretching from the 1890s until just after the end of World War I.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Progressive Movement 1890 1920: Progressivism in the White House

For Students 11th - 12th
Looks at the Square Deal of Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive goals of William Taft, and at legislation enacted under the New Freedom agenda of Woodrow Wilson.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: The Progressives

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive teaching unit that explores the Progressive period in America and the reform movements that accompanied it. Contains video and text materials, web interactives, student oriented activities, and a timeline of key events from...
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Library of Congress

Loc: u.s. Participation in the Great War (World War One)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview of the Progressive Era to New Era (1900-1929) through the use of primary sources provided by the Library of Congress, with concentration on World War One. Through these documents, the effects of the war on...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Unit: Period 7: 1890 1945: Muckrakers

For Students 9th - 10th
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. The Progressive Era's muckrakers are discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
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Ohio State University

E History: Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
A look into the coal mining industry in the Gilded Age through maps, timelines, images, and primary source documents.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Progressivism in the Factory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson on Progressivism in the Factory uses primary resources to explore how Americans defined progress during the Progressive Era. Comprehensive content for lesson.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This comprehensive lesson plan examines at the Chautauqua phenomenon in the early 20th century with looks at topics such as World War I, women's suffrage, the Progressive Era, and science and technology. Discussion questions are...
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US National Archives

Nara: Charters of Freedom: The Constitution: Amendments 11 27

For Students 9th - 10th
Check here to read the three amendments passed during the Progressive Era, the 16th, 17th, & 18th amendments. From the National Archives and Records Administration.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Politics of Reform

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A great look at the Progressive Era, the issues dealt with at that time, and the legistlation passed to help alleviate social ills. Read about the great range of personalities and viewpoints that drove...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Douglass Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this primary source pamphlet written by Jane Addams, who pushed for a woman's right to vote during the Progressive Era.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Us History: A New Century

For Students 9th - 10th
AP U.S. History unit covers the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, including the first World War and the Progressive Era. Comprehensive lesson materials and interactive media.
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Progressivism and Foreign Intervention (1898 1920)

For Students 9th - 10th
What did foreign policy look like from the Spanish American War through the first World War? Find out that and what domestic policies were during the Progressive Era. Utilize lessons, videos, and slideshows featuring these topics.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Biography of America: A Vital Progressivism

For Students 9th - 10th
View a chapter from "A Biography of America" about the Progressive Era that focuses on minority and immigrant perspectives. An excellent resources for understanding the struggles of Native American, Mexican immigrant, Asian immigrant,...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Progressivism

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. This unit explores perspectives on the key issues of the Progressive Era.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Political Bosses

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students examine a political cartoon, a muckraker text, and the defense of a political boss to...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Settlement House Movement Sac

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary sources from Progressive Era about the Settlement House Movement. Includes downloadable teacher materials, student materials, and primary source documents.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Supreme Court: Capitalism and Conflict: Court History

For Students 9th - 10th
During the Progressive Era many state laws were passed that dealt with regulation of working conditions. Read about the Supreme Court history in judging the constitutionality of these laws.
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University of Minnesota

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Rights Revolution: Muller v. Oregon

For Students 9th - 10th
In the Progressive Era many states passed laws to protect workers and establish decent working conditions. Read the text of Muller v. Oregon, heard before the Supreme Court in 1908, that upheld Oregon's laws as constitutional.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Eighteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the industrial, racial, and technological progress of the late-nineteenth century.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Us History: Political Machines and Progressive Reforms

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and study the sources about political machines, corruption, and Progressive reforms. Then use the four sources and your knowledge of U.S. history to answer the questions.

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