Teach the Progressive Era with these engaging activities! This activity includes an introduction worksheet with primary sources, teacher notes, and a great research & writing activity.

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• Worksheet with two readings from the Progressive Era and short student responses
• Notes with ~10 slides with the background on the Progressive Era
• Progressive Reformers Dialogue Activity

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In the introduction worksheet, students will read an excerpt of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and a newspaper article from 1900 reporting Carrie Nation's actions in the Prohibition/Temperance movement. Use either of the excerpts OR one or the other! My students LOVE reading the segment about meat-packing in the 1900s and the story of Carrie Nation smashing bottles of liquor. Pick which ones work for your class!

Then, the notes cover:

• Muckrakers
• Photos of major reforms (Prohibition, Trust-Busting, Child Labor, Racial Injustice, Women's Suffrage, etc.)
• President Teddy Roosevelt as a reformer
• Political changes (initiative, recall, referendum, and the 17th Amendment)

The Progressive Reformers Dialogue prompts students to research and then craft a dialogue between two reformers. They are asked to include each reformer's:

• Goals
• Methods
• Successes and Failures
• Famous works/actions

The Progressive Reformers Dialogue activity includes:

• Student directions
• Note-taking sheets for students to use while researching
• Rubric

I love this activity because it prompts students to research two reformers and their reform movements deeply. As they compare and contrast the reformers, they gain deeper knowledge of at least two areas of the Progressive Era. Students will write 2-3 pages of academic dialogue as they pose as two reformers of their choice. They can choose between the following reformers:

Jane Addams, Upton Sinclair, John Muir, Alice Paul, W.E.B. DuBois, Margaret Sanger, Eugene Debs, Florence Kelley, Roger Baldwin, Ida B. Wells, Lincoln Steffens, Carrie Nation, Lucy Burns, Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, Booker T. Washington, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Marie Louis Bottineau Baldwin, Theodore Roosevelt, and Helen Keller

I usually give 2 class periods for students to work on their dialogue! This activity is great for students to learn about the Progressive Era, its successes, and its failures!

Use this compilation of resources to teach the Progressive Era!

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