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Chapter 10: 1898-1919

Did the Progressive Movement Diverge from Founding Principles and Did It Affect the Purpose of Government?

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Redfield Proctor vs. Mark Twain on American Imperialism, 1898–1906

Use this primary source imagery to analyze major events in history.

Cartoon Analysis: A Lesson for Anti-Expansionists, Victor Gillam, 1899

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906

Lewis Hine, Photographs Documenting Child Labor, 1908

Elihu Root vs. William Jennings Bryan on Women’s Suffrage, 1894–1914

Carrie Chapman Catt, Open Address to the U.S. Congress, 1917

Business and Advertising in the Early Twentieth Century, 1910–1917

The Espionage Act of 1917

George M. Cohan, Over There, 1917

Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, 1918

Chapter 10 of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, BRI's U.S. History Curriculum Resource, invites students to explore how the Progressive vision shaped American politics, society, and foreign policy from 1898 to 1917.

How did the Progressive vision shape American politics, society, and foreign policy from 1898 to 1917?

Chapter 10: 1898-1919 Inquiry Organizer

Answer Key for Chapter 10 of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Chapter 10 Answer Key

How did immigration/global affairs affect the U.S. from 1898-1919?

Chapter 10 Introductory Essay: 1898-1919

Was John Rockefeller a captain of industry or robber baron?

Ida M. Tarbell’s Crusade against Standard Oil

How did Alice Paul fight for equality of the sexes? 

Alice Paul and the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage

By the end of this section, you will explain the effects of the Spanish-American War.

Remember the Maine! Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

By the end of this section, you will compare attitudes toward the use of natural resources from 1890 to 1945.

Westward Expansion and the Quest to Conserve

By the end of this section, you will compare the goals and effects of the Progressive reform movement.

Jim Crow and Progressivism

By the end of this section, you will explain the similarities and differences in attitudes about the nation's proper role in the world.

The Panama Canal

Speaker Joseph Cannon Dethroned

Wilsonian Progressivism

The Philippine-American War

Why did the U.S. become involved in World War I?

America Enters World War I

By the end of this section, you will explain the causes and consequences of U.S. involvement in World War I.

Over There: The U.S. Soldier in World War I

By the end of this section, you will explain the causes and effects of international and internal migration patterns over time.

The Great Migration

The Election of 1912

The Treaty of Versailles

Use this Lesson with Alice Paul and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage Narrative, the Elihu Root vs. William Jennings Bryan on Women's Suffrage, 1894-1914 Primary Source, and the Carrie Chapman Catt, Open Address to the U.S. Congress, 1917 Primary Source to further explore the journey of the women's suffrage movement.

Women’s Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment

Use this Lesson withThe Espionage Act of 1917 Primary Source to explore how domestic groups who spoke out against U.S. involvement in World War I were treated. Facilitation Notes: Students should know how to approach primary sources, as well as some factual background regarding the events and time period of World War 1.

Schenck v. United States DBQ

Use this Lesson with the Wilsonian Progressivism Narrative and the Did the Progressive Movement Diverge from Founding Principles and Did It Affect the Purpose of Government? Point-Counterpoint to understand the Progressive Era.

The Progressive Movement DBQ

Use this lesson as the conclusion of the unit.

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