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