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