Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students will know:
- Immigrant experiences at Ellis Island and Angel Island. Workplace reforms that took place during the Progressive Era (i.e., 8 hour work day, child labor laws, and workman compensation laws).
- Key leaders of the Progressive Era that contributed to reforms in the United States (Theodore Roosevelt-National Parks System, Jane Adams-Hull House, Clara Barton-American Red Cross, Julia Tutwiler-Education/Prison Reform).
- Social reforms of the Progressive Movement.
- The early goals of the Civil Rights Movement and the purpose of the NAACP and other early civil rights organizations.
- Provisions of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-first Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify impacts of historical events.
- Describe historical movements by comparing and contrasting.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There were causes and the effects, both immediate and lasting, of various reform movements pertaining to immigration, labor, political, social, and constitutional amendments during the Progressive Era in the United States.
Vocabulary
- immigrants
- reforms
- movements
- 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 21st amendments origin
- Progressive Movement
- Populists
- temperance
- trustbuster
- muckraker
- repeal
- Homestead Act
- child labor
- corporation
- civil rights
- Ellis Island
- Angel Island
- workman's compensation
- Civil Rights Movement
- NAACP
