Progressive Era Sources

Progressive Era

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Why would I play this song for this era?

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Define the word political?

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What does the word legislation mean?

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What is the HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA? (BEFORE, DURING)

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Drop Down Menu: Progressive Era (Key Terms and Describe)

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Did the Progressive movement fostered political change in the United States from 1890 to 1920.

• Yes

• No

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What HTS does the previous question show?

• Continuity and Change

• Causation

• Comparison

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Provide historical examples for why the era DID change politically.

Does this show political change or continuity? Use historical evidence to answer.

Source: Jacob Riis, photojournalist, How the Other Half Lives, New York City, 1890.

Source: Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity of Settlements, 1892.

It is not difficult to see that although America is pledged to the democratic ideal, the view of democracy has been partial and that its best achievement thus far has been pushed along the line of the franchise. Democracy has made little attempt to assert itself in social affairs. We have refused to move beyond the position of its eighteenth-century leaders, who believed that political equality alone would secure all good to all men. We conscientiously followed the gift of the ballot hard upon the gift of freedom to the negro, but we are quite unmoved by the fact that he lives among us in practical social ostracism. We hasten to give the franchise to the immigrant from a sense of justice, from a tradition that he ought to have it...

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What is Addam's POV? How does this show change or continuity with HISTORICAL EVIDENCE?

President Theodore Roosevelt, speech at Providence, Rhode Island, 1902. 

The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is in duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown. There is clearly a need of supervision—need to possess the power of regulation of these great corporations through the representatives of the public—wherever, as in our own country at the present time, business corporations become so very powerful alike for beneficent work and for work that is not always beneficent. It is idle to say that there is no need for such supervision. There is, and a sufficient warrant for it is to be found in any one of the admitted evils appertaining to them. 

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What is Roosevelt's POV? How does this show change or continuity with HISTORICAL EVIDENCE?

NAACP, letter to President Wilson, 1913.

Dear Mr. President: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, through its Board of Directors, respectfully protests against the policy of your Administration in segregating the colored employees in the Departments at Washington. It realizes that this new and radical departure has been recommended, and is now being defended, on the ground that by giving certain bureaus or sections wholly to colored employees they are thereby rendered safer in possession of their offices and are less likely to be ousted or discriminated against. We believe this reasoning to be fallacious. It is based on a failure to appreciate the deeper significance of the new policy; to understand how far-reaching the effects of such a drawing of caste lines by the Federal Government may be, and how humiliating it is to the men thus stigmatized.

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What is the NAACP's POV? How does this political continuity or change in the era?

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What two sources could you group together due to their similarities? WHY?

DBQ: Progressive Era

Due March 8th