Essential+Knowledge+--+The+Progressive+Era


 * __Essential Knowledge -- Progressive Era__**
 * 1) Discuss the goals of the Progressive Movement.
 * 2) Explain what a muckraker was. Describe some of the leading muckrakers and their works.
 * 3) Explain how women tried to reform society and gain the right to vote.
 * 4) Describe the struggle of labor to reform working conditions, attempts at reform and tragedies such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and/or Ludlow Strike.
 * 5) Compare the ideas and accomplishments of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois.
 * 6) Evaluate the presidencies of the Progressive Era Presidents. Compare the Square Deal and New Freedom.
 * 7) Discuss the Election of 1912—name the participants, their parties and the results.
 * 8) Explain how the Federal Government used the Federal Reserve System and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act to regulate business and the economy.