The Progressive Era

  

The Progressive Era

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Digital History textbook:

The Progressive Era, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=11&smtid=2

In preparation for the midterm exam, be able to describe (what is it and when was it?) and analyze (what is its wider significance to the history of the United States?): 

Jane Addams; Municipal Progressivism; State Progressivism; National Progressivism; Anti-Trust; lynching; the Convict Lease System; segregation and disfranchisement; the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Margaret Sanger

Select significant passages from at least three of the following primary sources for your Primary Source Annotation:

Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890), review the illustrations in the book, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45502/45502-h/45502-h.htm

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Southern Horrors:  Lynch Law in All Its Phases (orig. publ. 1892), https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14975/14975-h/14975-h.htm

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906), https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse.html

Margaret Sanger, The Case for Birth Control (1917), click HERE

Post Primary Source Annotation and Comments on at least five other students' annotations