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

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[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars 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 decide for themselves whether political bosses in the Progressive Era were corrupt.

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Concepts
political cartoons, progressivism, muckraking
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Additional Tags
document-based, historical claim, historical inquiry, muckraker, muckraking journalist, dbq, progressive era, sheg: document based history: reading like a historian: political bosses, primary source
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
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Common Core
RH.11-12.9