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The Essential Questions:

 * Who benefits and who suffers during the time of profound economic change?
 * How can people change society?
 * Did this period of industrialization and reform move America closer or further away from its founding ideals?

Problems at the Turn of the Century

Press Conference on Progressivism

Progressive Presidential Campaign



[|Government Policies, 1870-1895 Vocabulary Practice]

[|Child Labor, 1900 Vocabulary Practice]

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[|The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Vocabulary Practice]

[|The Election of 1912 Vocabulary Practice]

[|The Lawrence Strike Vocabulary Practice]

[|Women's Suffrage Vocabulary Practice]

**The Americans Chapter 9 Vocabulary Activities**
9.1 The Origins of Progressivism 9.2 Women in Public Life 9.3 Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal 9.4 Progressivism Under Taft 9.5 Wilson's New Freedom Chapter 9 The Progressive Era
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Useful Web Links** Industrialization and Reform Laissez-Faire Capitalism| http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Index.html?http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Politics_LaissezFaire.html PBS – Andrew Carnegie http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/ America’s Library – Andrew Carnegie http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/carnegie Steel http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0026315.html Bessemer Process http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0016421.html Background of the Bessemer Process http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Bessemer_process John D. Rockefeller Biography http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/jdrsrbio.html PBS – The Rockefellers http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/ Cornelius Vanderbilt http://www.arvadesign.ca/narhf/nar99/NAR99awards_VAND.html John Pierpont Morgan http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmorgan.htm The Great Chicago Fire http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html Cornell University - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ Photographs from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/history/hsty3080/3rdYr3080/trianglewebsite/ NPR - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1416870 Davenport Library - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Sweatshops, and Labor Reform http://www.rbls.lib.il.us/dpl/ref/hist/hid/histhidtriangle.htm The New Deal Network - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://newdeal.feri.org/library/d_4m.htm PBS – Theodore Roosevelt http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tr/ Immigration in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/bibs/immig.htmll The Haymarket Riot http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/index.htm History of the US Labor Movement http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/labor.html Labor Strikes http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_051202_iistrikes.htm Pittsburgh and Western PA Labor Legacy http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/View_Review.asp?DBID=70 US Labor Strikes History http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/ThemeUnits/USLabor/strikes.htm US Labor History - General Information http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/ThemeUnits/USLabor/general.htm Labor History http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/history/labor_history.html Labor Management and Conflict http://history.osu.edu/Projects/LaborConflict/Default.htm The Urban Experience in Chicago (Hull House) http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/ Jane Addams (Hull House) http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/Exhibits/jane.addams/addams.index.htm The Ram's Horn - Social Gospel http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Rams_Horn/default.htm How the Other Half Lives – Jacob Riis http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html Ida M. Tarbell – The History of the Standard Oil Company http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/MAIN.HTM Women and Social Movements 1830-1930 http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/index.html Votes for Women – Suffrage Pictures http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html Women’s Suffrage Documents http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/woman_suffrage/woman_suffrage.html Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/Lessons_US/Gilded_Age/Coal_Mining/default.htm Inside an American Factory – Films of the Westinghouse Works http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html Labor – Management Conflict http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/laborconflict/ The Gilded Age – online resources http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/history/gilded.html PBS – Not For Ourselves Alone (The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony) http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/ The American Steel Industry http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Steel/Default.htm PBS The Stock Market Crash http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/crash/ Urban Construction http://www.42explore.com/construct.htm Building Big http://www.pbs.org/includes/survey/top20/buildingbig.html How Iron and Steel Work http://science.howstuffworks.com/iron.htm Skyscrapers http://science.howstuffworks.com/skyscraper1.htm How Stocks and the Stock Market Work http://money.howstuffworks.com/stock.htm How Banks Work http://money.howstuffworks.com/bank.htm Impact of Refrigeration http://www.history-magazine.com/refrig.html America in the Gilded Age http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html How the Other Half Live - Jacob Riis http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html The Second Industrial Revolution http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook35.html Early Labor Union History http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/workday_1 Knights of Labor http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/bus/A0827931.html Knights of Labor Overview http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAknights.htm American Federation of Labor http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAafl.htm AFL-CIO Labor History http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/history/index.cfm Industrial Workers of the World http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAiww.htm Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Gilded_Age/default.htm Bread and Roses – History and Poetry of the American Labor Movement http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/history/labor_history.html Edison Motion Pictures http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhm.html Ogden Meat Packing History http://historytogo.utah.gov/ogdenpack.html Muckrakers Overview http://www.bartleby.com/65/mu/muckrake.html Muckrakers Authors and Subjects http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h920.html The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Progressivism http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module14/index.html Progressivism General Resources http://www.u-s-history.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search=progressivism The 1912 Presidential Election http://1912.history.ohio-state.edu/ Teenvestor http://www.teenvestor.com/ Robber Barons and Captains of Industry http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=429 The Model of Supply and Demand http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/DemandSupply/OverviewSD.html Index of Microeconomics Topics http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/MicroIndex.html WebEc (Resources in Economics) http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/WebEc.html Inflation Calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ CPI (Consumer Price Index) - Inflation Information http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/home.htm