The Progressive Movement:
What Was it and What Did it Accomplish?

For the next week, we will be examining the Progressive Movement at its height in American history.  You will be asked to research a particular aspect of the movement and one important individual and make a presentation to the group, beginning next Thursday.  In your presentation, you will

1)  Identify the problem(s) for the group as specifically as possible
2) identify key people who worked to solve the problem (be sure to include the muckrakers)..
3) identify the goals of each group
4) explain the results of this reform effort.  What did they do to reform the problems they found?
5) evaluation:  How successful do you feel your group was in solving the problems that they faced?

Choose one of the following categories:

1) business monopolies and unfair practices
2) labor conditions (adult as well as child)
3) government corruption and the need for more voter participation
4) urban infrastructure
5) conditions of the farmers

6) environmental problems
7) African-Americans
8) Women‚s suffrage
9) Temperance
10) Education

Please create a Power Point over the issue you have chosen that addresses the five points above.  in addition, please write a three page paper about one of the key figures in your movement.  Your writing will be evaluated using the school‚s writing rubric and the oral presentation will use the school‚s oral presentation rubric  Both are attached.

In addition, you will be expected to provide an outline (it may be from your PPt. presentation) for your classmates to take notes.  Please avoid reading your Power Point slides to us.  Be sure to create a Works Cited page for sources and to identify where you obtained photographs and any direct/indirect quotations.

Credit for some of the above categories and questions goes to Camden Hills Regional High School and its AP US History course.

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