Unpacked Content
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.
Vocabulary
- textual evidence
- evaluate
- cite
- Progressivism
- muckraker
- trust
- antitrust
- suffrage
- temperance movement
- civil rights
- trust-busting
- conservation
