U6 - End of 19th Century

Student Resources

• Timeline of events from 1862-1896 can provide interesting context to our study of this era
• Gospel of Wealth excerpt
• Native American related resources
  • maps comparing Native American lands with natural resources
  • Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 - never honored
  • buffalo hide
• presentation including slides on industrialization, immigration and urbanization
• Progressive Reform Research Assignment
• timelines of political parties: from 1870-1900 and from 1900 - 1930
• conservative and liberal defined over time (for the Q Were Progressives conservative or liberal?)
• "The Wedge" handout: Tenements, Sweatshops & Child Labor and Rebecca Edwards on Henry George's Progress and Poverty (the "wedge" part)
• SAQ Practice on William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech excerpts
• Presentation on ch. 18 using Key Concepts (Victorians Make the Modern)
• Students who had seen this TedEd video about the Wizard of Oz suggested it could be helpful to understanding the 1890s politics
• Ida Tarbell & the history of antitrust legislation (NPR story)
  • more on the history of antitrust legislation from the Federal Trade Commission
• examples of the limits of Progressive reform, using a racial lens:
  • "How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women" (NYTimes)
  • "Refusing to Believe Early Progressives Loved Eugenics Will Not Erase the Horrible Truth" (The Federalist)
• Synthesis examples
  • "Left Turn" - use of the label "Progressive" in early 20th century to today
  • "If Trump and Sanders Are Both Populists, What Does Populist Mean?" from The American Historian