11: Populism and Progressivism

11: Populism and Progressivism

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At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction | Farm to Fable | Food | Tampa Bay Times
At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction | Farm to Fable | Food | Tampa Bay Times
If you'd like to drag students into a 21st century version of "the Jungle" perhaps this might do it. It's not that the food is unhealthy or harmful to your health, but what you eating is not necessarily what you think you are eating. And according to this article, it most certainly is not what you are being told you are eating.
#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·tampabay.com·
At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction | Farm to Fable | Food | Tampa Bay Times
From Abolition to Progressivism: Women in Public Life
From Abolition to Progressivism: Women in Public Life
"This assignment introduces students to the history of women's suffrage in the context of other nineteenth and twentieth century reform movements using a combination of photographs and written documents. The goal is to teach "form" along with "content," so that students will look at both the images and the written documents for their uses of gendered rhetoric in addition to their more obvious content. The project starts with a "slideshow" that students can either do at home or that the teacher can show in class (or both) and finishes with group discussions and an individual writing assignment."
#progressive era#lesson plan#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·investigatinghistory.ashp.cuny.edu·
From Abolition to Progressivism: Women in Public Life
Progressivism in the Factory – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers
Progressivism in the Factory – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers
This lesson from the National Humanities Center comes with a narrative understanding of the Progressive Era that is seldom, if ever, taught. Sharing it with students can help facilitate learning in this lesson which has students reading from Frederick Winslow Taylor's "Scientific Management" . THis lesson provides the text and questions annotated to the text itself
#progressive era#lesson plan#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·americainclass.org·
Progressivism in the Factory – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers
Teaching American History: Progressive Era
Teaching American History: Progressive Era

Teachers looking for a unit's worth of Progressive lessons could use this approach. Although it is a lesson that uses the traditional divide and conquer, do a project approach, but it does it based on primary documents.

  1. How does the Progressive Movement represent a change in American ideals? 2 What is the long-term impact of Progressive goals?
  2. How do labor unions continue to represent the ideals of the Progressive Movement?
#lesson plans#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·lsu.edu·
Teaching American History: Progressive Era
Social Studies in the Spotlight: Inquiry, Primary Sources, and Informational Reading, 7-12
Social Studies in the Spotlight: Inquiry, Primary Sources, and Informational Reading, 7-12

This lesson has students reading letters opposing and in support of the the Keating-Owen Child Labor Acts of 1916 (act). The law was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. This primary doc exercise can be combined with an analysis of Lewis Hines photography 1916 - Letter from Suzanne Heber Supporting Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill (letter) 1916 - Letter from Lyons Township High School Students supporting Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill (letter) 1916 - Letter from Marshall Dilling Opposing Keating-Own Child Labor Bill (letter) 1916 - Letter from Operatives of Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Company Cotton Mill in Opposition to Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill"

#lesson plans#US History II#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·eduscapes.com·
Social Studies in the Spotlight: Inquiry, Primary Sources, and Informational Reading, 7-12
Modern America: Radical Labor Movement: Radical Labor in the Age of Reform (1877-1920) - Emerging America
Modern America: Radical Labor Movement: Radical Labor in the Age of Reform (1877-1920) - Emerging America
Not only does this lesson put students in front of primary source documents, the documents are well-chosen and the questions, brief and to the point. More importantly, this lesson draws material across decades, exposing students to broader trends of events across time.
#lesson plan#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·emergingamerica.org·
Modern America: Radical Labor Movement: Radical Labor in the Age of Reform (1877-1920) - Emerging America
The Helicon Home Colony - Upton Sinclair Letter
The Helicon Home Colony - Upton Sinclair Letter
Upton Sinclair used the proceeds from "The Jungle" to to fund a small utopian community in Englewood, New Jersey. This letter of his describes the community. Please note the use of "rigid selection" to decide who is eligible to join the commune. This rigid selection included a ban on "anyone of color"
#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·wagnercollections.omeka.net·
The Helicon Home Colony - Upton Sinclair Letter
The 1905 Movement to Reform Football - Topics in Chronicling America (Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, Library of Congress)
The 1905 Movement to Reform Football - Topics in Chronicling America (Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, Library of Congress)
The linked articles at this site provide a wide selection of newspaper articles concerning safety in collegiate football at the turn of the century. This can be used as material for a progressive era lesson with material that has never been used for such.
#progressive era#lesson plan#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·loc.gov·
The 1905 Movement to Reform Football - Topics in Chronicling America (Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, Library of Congress)
The hardcore teen bike messengers of the early 1900s
The hardcore teen bike messengers of the early 1900s
In 1908, the progressive National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hine, a New York sociologist and photographer, to document the exploitative working conditions of child laborers in dozens of occupations, from mining and manufacturing to farming and newspaper selling - this is his collection of photographs of bike messengers. Most of the messengers worked for telegraph companies or drug stores. The photos that Hine took became the face of the child labor reform movement and ultimately helped push through the 1916 passage of the Keatings-Owen Act, which set age and shift length restrictions for young workers. While the act was struck down by the Supreme Court, it set the stage for lasting reform to be created during the New Deal of the 1930s.
#historical pictures#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·mashable.com·
The hardcore teen bike messengers of the early 1900s
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900) | The Public Domain Review
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900) | The Public Domain Review
Series of charts that can be used to explore differences in white and black populations of America in the early 1900s, but can also serve as a reminder that everything has a deeper history that one might imagine. Data visualization was a "think" long before computers
#African Americans#data visualization#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·publicdomainreview.org·
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900) | The Public Domain Review
"Fitter Family" contests at State Fairs from the Eugenics Archive
"Fitter Family" contests at State Fairs from the Eugenics Archive

Most Americans know that rural state fairs feature award-winning pumpkins, blue ribbon calfs and quilting contests. But how many know that dark side of the progressive movement's popularization of eugenics as a means to improve society promoted state fair family competitions. "Fitter Families" entered these competitions to document the successful "breeding" which brought them better families. This archive includes photos, awards and documentation that families provided in these competitions .

See more evidence here - http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/themes/8.html

#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·eugenicsarchive.org·
"Fitter Family" contests at State Fairs from the Eugenics Archive
Other people's money, and how the bankers use it : Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, (Book)
Other people's money, and how the bankers use it : Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, (Book)
The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various industries under the control of a small number of corporations, which Brandeis alleged were working in concert to prevent competition. Brandeis harshly criticized investment bankers who controlled large amounts of money deposited in their banks by middle-class people. The heads of these banks, Brandeis pointed out, routinely sat on the boards of railroad companies and large industrial manufacturers of various products, and routinely directed the resources of their banks to promote the interests of their own companies. These companies, in turn, sought to maintain control of their industries by crushing small businesses and stamping out innovators who developed better products to compete against them.
#books online#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·archive.org·
Other people's money, and how the bankers use it : Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, (Book)
6 Lost Mansions of the Upper West Side and Upper Manhattan | Untapped Cities
6 Lost Mansions of the Upper West Side and Upper Manhattan | Untapped Cities
Teachers will have to tear off the lcik bait and other junk from this web site. But the homes in this series have to put alongside Jacob Riis pictures. We should not be showing students just the Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis stuff - but we should also show them "how the other, other half lived"
#historical pictures#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·untappedcities.com·
6 Lost Mansions of the Upper West Side and Upper Manhattan | Untapped Cities
1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound) - YouTube
1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound) - YouTube
High Quality film of New York City in the year 1911. Print has survived in mint condition. Slowed down footage to a natural rate and added in sound for ambiance. This film was taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America
#3rd Grade Unit 3 - Growth and Change in New Jersey#Historical video#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·youtube.com·
1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound) - YouTube
Race or mongrel: a brief history (Book)
Race or mongrel: a brief history (Book)
Race or mongrel: a brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of earth: a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with alien stocks: a demonstration that a nation's strength is due to racial purity: a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless immigration is rigorously restricted. This 1908 book should be used by teachers with caution though it could be an essential element illustrating the intolerance in America. It is just as important to know how awful these views of some Americans are, just as it is important to note how they can be overcome
#immigration#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era
·archive.org·
Race or mongrel: a brief history (Book)