Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Progressive Era/Crash Course US History #27

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

11

Overview

In this video from PBSLearningMedia, John Green teaches students about the Progressive Era in the United States. In the late 19th and early 20th century in America, there was a sense that things could be improved upon. A sense that reforms should be enacted. A sense that progress should be made. As a result, we got the Progressive Era, which has very little to do with automobile insurance, but a little to do with automobiles. All this overlapped with the Gilded Age and is a little confusing, but people were trying to solve some of the social problems that came with the benefits of industrial capitalism. While progress was being made and people were becoming freer, these gains were not equally distributed. Jim Crow laws were put in place in the south, and immigrant rights were restricted as well. So once again on Crash Course, things aren't so simple.

    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 11 - United States History II

    SS10.US2.2

    Evaluate social and political origins, accomplishments, and limitations of Progressivism. [A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.c., A.1.d., A.1.e., A.1.f., A.1.i., A.1.k.]

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.US2.2

    Vocabulary

    • textual evidence
    • evaluate
    • cite
    • Progressivism
    • muckraker
    • trust
    • antitrust
    • suffrage
    • temperance movement
    • civil rights
    • trust-busting
    • conservation

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The social, economic, and political origins, accomplishments, and limitations of the Progressive.
    • The impact of the Populist Movement on the role of the federal government in American society.
    • The impact of muckrakers on public opinion during the Progressive movement, including Upton Sinclair, Jacob A. Riis, and Ida M. Tarbell.
    • The influence and impact of social movements, including: women's suffrage, temperance movement, and civil rights for African-Americans.
    • The influence of specific social groups and influential individuals on the Progressive Era, including: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the Niagara Movement, the National *Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Carter G. Woodson.
    • National legislation affecting the Progressive movement, including the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act.
    • The significance of the public education movement initiated by Horace Mann.
    • The impact of the presidential leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in obtaining passage of measures regarding trust-busting, the Hepburn Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Act, and conservation.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Effectively evaluate the complexities, origins, limitations, accomplishments and affects of social and political movements such as the Progressive and Populist Movements.
    • Evaluate the influence of prominent individuals and groups from specific historical time periods on public opinion, social and political movements, and national legislation.
    • Explain national legislation that was influence by and that affected social and political movements.
    • Assess the significance of the public education movement initiated by Horace Mann.
    • Compare the presidential leadership during specific historical periods.
    • Analyze primary and secondary historical sources.
    • Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • There were political, economic, and social origins, accomplishments, and limitations of the Progressive Era and these have impacted American society through the present.
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