Essential+Knowledge-Progressive+Era

__**Essential Knowledge: Progressive Era**__
 * 1) Discuss the goals of the Progressive Movement.


 * 1) Explain what a muckraker was. Describe some of the leading muckrakers and their works.


 * 1) Explain how women tried to reform society and gain the right to vote.


 * 1) Describe the struggle of labor to reform working conditions, attempts at reform and tragedies such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and/or Ludlow Strike.


 * 1) Compare the ideas and accomplishments of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois.


 * 1) Evaluate the presidencies of the Progressive Era Presidents. Compare the Square Deal and New Freedom.


 * 1) Discuss the Election of 1912—name the participants, their parties and the results.


 * 1) Explain how the Federal Government used the Federal Reserve System and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act to regulate business and the economy.