Progressive Era DBQ - Where would you put your million dollars?

• Hook Exercise
• Background Essay questions
• Document Analysis questions
• Bucketing/Chicken foot ($600,000, $300,000, $100,000)
• Thesis: I would put my money in the reform areas of ______________
• Outline essay
• Write essay - “Dear Aunt Bessie,”

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* Conservation (saving trees) * Child labor

* Women’s suffrage (right to vote)* Meat inspection

10/26 or 10/27: Warm-Up and Objectives

Objective: Students will examine the case of Plessy v. Ferguson and analyze the result of this decision using primary source documents.

Warm-up: Define lynching.

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10/28 or 10/29: Warm-Up and Objectives

Objective: Students will analyze solutions to problems of industrialization by completing Progressive foldables.

Warm-up: Answer reflection questions.

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Progressivism Era Foldable

Problems: What was the solution to each problem? What law was passed to fix it?

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People: What problem/area were they trying to reform?

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• Poor Working Conditions: p. 172-174
• Tainted Food and Medicine: p. 186
• Spoils System / Patronage: p. 160
• Pollution and Environmental Destruction: p. 187-188
• Unfair Taxation System: p. 190

• Living Conditions: p. 171
• High Railroad Rates: p. 185-186
• Monopolies: p. 184-186, 191
• Election Fraud: p. 175
• Political Machines and Party Bosses: p. 159-160