24 - Progressive Era & Presidents
Assignment:
You will be writing a song about the Progressive Era. You can just write lyrics to a song, or you can work with another person and create a music video. You should take a song you already know and change the words to incorporate the Progressive Era and late 1800s and early 1900s.Â
Include:
Sherman Antitrust Act
Muckraking
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Lewis Hines - photography of child labor
Higher wages, cap on daily working hours, unemployment insurance, old age pensions
Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
Leisure Time
Government Taxes to redistribute economic inequality
California's direct democracy
Tuskegee Institute - Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois - NAACP
William McKinley Assassination - Leon Czolgosz
Square Deal
Northern Securities Company
Hepburn Act
Conservationist
William Howard Taft
Election of 1912
Bull Moose Party
New Nationalism
Panama Canal
"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick"
Total: 10 Points