Progressives and the Guilded Age: During the early 1900’s forward thinking people with all sorts of ideas wanted to improve life for the American people. They wanted to change wrong conditions and end corruption. Some people decided to investigate and dig up dirt on companies and organizations. Others decided to take a stand on issues where one was needed. Other people were making more money then they knew what to do. Out of this emerged muckrakers like Upton Sinclair, Presidents like Hayes and Garfield that combated political corruptness, and other important leaders like Robert La Follette that started the Wisconsin Idea. No matter what the cause these reformers became known as the progressives; their actions shaped American ideals forever.
Your task: Pick one of the following people. Research the prerson and how they helped change the world.
Next, answer these three questions:
- What was life like before this person?
- What did they do to change the way we live?
- If they were alive today what would there cause and fight be about or what would they be involved in.
- Are they a hero or villian? and why
- Next, find four items to bring in to discuss this person. The items can be pictures, but be creative.
Finally write a paragraph for each of the questions above explaining why you picked the picture or item to represent your answer.
All paragraph should start out: I pick __________ to answer the question ____________. The reason I picked this __________ is because.
This is where you would give historical information and clear explain your connections.
Grading
| Topic | | | | |
| What life was like before this person. How they were important | | | | |
| What was life after this person. How did they change society | | | | |
| Modern day problem. Show the problem and explain how it relates to the problem they solved. | | | | |
| Writing clearly explains in detail each of the answers. A paragraph of 8 sentences is used for each answer | | | | |
| Hero or villian and why. | | | | |
| | | | |
1. Margaret Sanger
2. Teddy Roosevelt
3. Upton Sinclair
4. Ida Tarbell
5. Robert La Follette
6. Booker T. Washington
7. Jane Adams
8. W.E.B. DuBois
9. Woodrow Wilson
10. Samuel Gompers
11. Samuel S. McClure
12. Eugene V. Debs
13. John Dewey
14. Jacob Riis
15. Rutherford B. Hayes
16. James Garfield
17. William Tweed
18. Carrie Chapman Catt
19. Alice Paul
20. Florence Kelley
21. Frances Willard
22. Carry Nation
23. Ida B. Wells
24. George Washington Carver
25. Frank Norris
26. Mary H “Mother” Jones
27. William M Trotter
28. Francis Perkins
29. Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.
30. David W. Griffith
31. John D. Rockefeller
32. Andrew W. Mellon
33. Andrew Carnegie
34. Henry Flagler
35. Henry H. Rogers
36. J. P. Morgan
37. Cornelius Vanderbilt