SSUSH13 Evaluate efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.

a. Describe the influence of muckrakers on affecting change by bringing attention to social problems.

b. Examine and explain the roles of women in reform movements.

c. Connect the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson to the expansion of Jim Crow laws and the formation of the NAACP.

d. Describe Progressive legislative actions including empowerment of the voter, labor laws, and the conservation movement.

SSUSH14 Explain America’s evolving relationship with the world at the turn of the twentieth century.

a. Describe how the Spanish-American War, war in the Philippines, and territorial expansion led to the debate over American

imperialism.

b. Examine U.S. involvement in Latin America, as reflected by the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and the creation

of the Panama Canal.