Progressives Activism Project

Project Steps

Step 1: Choose a topic

Topics to Research

• Food Safety: At the turn of the century, food production was unsafe and hazardous.

• Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (The Temperance Movement): Alcohol abuse is rampant (widespread and destructive) and is causing social problems.

• Political Corruption: Politics are being controlled by big business and corrupt political parties.  Cheating during elections and stealing taxpayer money is common.

• Environmentalism and Conservation: Industrialization without laws has created massive pollution.

• Women’s Rights: Women do not have the right to vote and under the law are considered property.

• Civil Rights for African Americans: African Americans continue to experience discrimination and racism.

• City Slums: Unsafe housing, water, sewage, transportation, homelessness

• Big Business & Monopolies: Businesses are controlling the market, unfair price setting, and extreme labor practices

• Workers Rights: Workers had few rights while they were working in factories.

• Civil Rights for Latinos: Latinos faced discrimination and abuse in the early 1900s.

Step 2: Fill out note sheets for sources you used (these are required formatives)

• Should use a different Note Sheet for each source

• Each person needs to do 3 sources for your project

Step 3: Create your Informational Exhibit (Grading Rubric)

• Decide what type of exhibit you want to make:

  1.  Create a Google Slides Presentation or other type of presentation (Infographic, Prezi, Digital Poster etc.)

     • Exhibit Requirements: (Example Project)

       •  Have a clear title for your project

       •  Write a paragraph answering each of the four essential questions (above)

       •  Include 4 primary sources about your topic (photos, quotes, newspaper articles, artifacts, paintings/drawings etc.). You should use HAPPY to describe the source (Standard #2: Source Analysis)

       •  Put some interesting/attractive touches on your exhibit

  2.  Create social media campaign

     • Social Media (Example Project)

       • Need to answer 4 essential questions

       • Include 4 primary sources about your topic (photos, quotes, newspaper articles, artifacts, paintings/drawings etc.). You should use HAPPY to describe the source (Standard #2: Source Analysis)

       • Evaluate how effective you think this campaign was at persuading people to your cause

     • Ideas you could do

       • Snapchat/Tik Tok Videos

       • Use Canva to make Instagram posts

       • Other Social Media Platforms

  3.  Create your own Project

     • Talk to your Teacher about what you want to do

       • Previous ideas

         • Diarama 

Step 4: Give your elevator speech about your exhibit (Script for Speech is Here)