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Progressive Pursuit

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LENGTH

20 Minutes

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Description

Step into the early 1900s and explore the Progressive Era through the eyes of journalist Ida Tarbell. Through interactive mini-games, you will learn how reformers worked to fix problems caused by inequality, corruption, and unsafe conditions.

Vocabulary Words

equality

segregation laws

discrimination

muckrakers

monopoly

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about The Progressive Era. Suitable for Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Compare the different visions of American democracy promoted by Progressive leaders and marginalized activists.

Identify major legislative reforms of the era, such as the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.

Evaluate how Progressive reforms addressed (or failed to address) inequalities based on race, class, and gender.

Explain Booker T. Washington’s approach to African American advancement and how it differed from other reformers.

Assess the contributions of African American leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells to the fight for racial equality.

Evaluate the role of women in the Progressive Era, including their contributions to labor rights, suffrage, and social reforms.

Describe how child labor, poor working conditions, and labor strikes spurred calls for workplace reforms.

Interpret how political machines and corruption were challenged by reformers.

Analyze how muckrakers like Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair exposed societal problems and influenced government action.

Explain the goals of the Progressive movement and the major areas they sought to reform.

Discuss how Indigenous activists like Laura Cornelius Kellogg sought to reclaim sovereignty and rights for Native Americans.

Analyze how Progressive Era presidents (Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson) advanced reforms in government, business, and conservation.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What do you think of when you hear the word monopoly? What are the prices a country might face when corporations become very wealthy? Do you think that the role of the government is to protect people from companies? Why or why not? Should the government step in to regulate companies? Why or why not?

After the Game

Do you think that the Gilded Age was a time of prosperity or problems? Cite examples. How did Progressives, muckrakers and other reformers address the problems that America was facing? What were some systematic domestic problems that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and what were some ways that leaders addressed them? How did journalists and muckrakers help to make changes to bring about safety, justice, equality, fair pricing and freedoms for common American citizens?

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