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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: The Progressives WebsiteAnnenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: The Progressives Website
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Annenberg Foundation
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9th - 10th
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: The Progressives

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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 1889-1924.

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Concepts

consumerism, public health, reformers, women's rights, women's suffrage, upton sinclair, progressivism

Additional Tags

labor problems, progressive movement, progressive reform, social reform, urban problems, annenberg foundation, annenberg learner, annenberg media, progressive era, reform movement

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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