The Progressive Era: 8th Grade Exit Project

Internet Resources

As you begin to investigate your topic, you may want to use the Internet to spark new ideas. The following websites are central to the study of the Progressive Era:



Muckrakers
Overview: http://www.ushistory.org/us/42b.asp
Ida Tarbell Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1105.html

Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation: http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/ 

http://www.cr.nps.gov/logcabin/html/tr5.html

Speech to Congress: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/trconserv.htm

TheTheodoreRooseveltAssociation: http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/

Theodore Roosevelt in Film and Pictures: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/

The Indomitable President: http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/TR/TR_Campaigns_and_Elections.htm

George Waring
http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/when-the-white-wings-cleaned-up-new-york/
http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/2428/2487068/documents/doc_d19d01.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29892573

Settlement Houses

http://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/organizations/settlement-houses/
http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/settlementhouse.html

Jacob Riis

Museum of the City of New York Exhibit: http://www.mcny.org/riis2.htm 

Hypertext version of How the Other Half Lives: http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html 

Site on the Impact of Photography: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/R/riis/riis_articles2.html

Jane Addams

Link to the Jane Addams Museum: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_house.html 

A Collection Of Addams’ Writing: http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/memory/index.html

Child Labor

Child Labor in America: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
About Child Labor: http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/what_is_child_labor.html

Political Cartoons

Cartoons of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm

Tenements

Lower East Side Tenement Museum: http://www.wnet.org/tenement/

Working Conditions in the Progressive Era

Inside an American Factory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

The Triangle Factory Fire: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ 

“Votes For Women” Suffrage Picture: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

Social Protest

Women and Social Movements: http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/index.html

Women’s Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage and the19th Amendment: 
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html 

“Votes For Women” Suffrage Picture: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
Primary sources:  http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/womens-suffrage/
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=18&review=yes

Temperance Movement

The Temperance and Prohibition Era: http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/
Prohibition: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441
18th Amendment: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxviii