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Captains of Industry
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
Who was Henry Ford?
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Growth of Unions
What were some of the industries in which children worked?
Look at the pictures, what type of work do these children do?
Name some of the national labor unions and their founders.
What tactics did management use agains the unions?
Explain the causes and effects of the Homestead Strike.
What efforts were made to end child labor in the US?
Describe the formation of the AFL and the CIO?
Immigration/Cities
Describe the difference between 1870 and 1915.
Be sure to check on the tenement's different levels.
What was life like for different groups of immigrants?
Pick one or two immigrant groups to investigate.
Analyze one of the pictures and describe the motivation of the photographer.
Ellis Island Photo Album
Analyze at least two pictures
Investigate Angel Island
A different story on a different coast
Why did the immigrants come to America?
What PUSHED them out of their country, what PULLED them into the USA?
African Americans in the Progressive Era
Who was Jim Crow?
Where does the term come from?
How do people remember Jim Crow?
Listen to people relive their experiences with Jim Crow
How did the Supreme Court react to Jim Crow?
Describe the main facts of Plessy v Ferguson
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
And what did he believe was the best way to fight Jim Crow?
who was Booker T. Washington?
And what did he believe was the best way to fight Jim Crow?
Muckrakers
What is a Muckraker?
Explain the social problems Lincoln Steffens worte about in his book.
Explain the social problems Upton Sinclair worte about in his book.
go to the 3rd paragraph
Explain the problems with business monopolies Ida Tarbell wrote about in her book.
Explain the social problems Jacob Riis photographed and wrote about in his book.
Explain the social problems John Spargo worte about in his book.
Women
Who was Jane Addams, and what was Hull House?
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
Explain her role in women's rights?
What were some of the major events in the Women's Suffrage Movement?
How were women involved in Prohibition Movement?
How were Women involved in social reform?
What was the objective of the Anti Saloon League and the Women's Chritian Temperance Organization?
What was prohibition?
Why did it begin and why did it end?
General Sites
A Bio of America
Interactive Time line by Annenberg
The Progressive Era
covers Muckrakers, Social and Political Refomers
Library of Congress Photos
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