The American Vision: Modern Times © 2010 Indiana Edition

Unit 3: Imperialism and Progressivism

Historical Thinking Activities

Internet Sources on the Progressive Era 

Labor Issues:

Library of Congress
National Child Labor Committee Photograph Collection
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/207-b.html

Ohio History Central
Workmen's Compensation
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1515

Temperance:

Library of Congress
Home Sweet Home
Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio: Temperance
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/ohio/ohio-temperance.html

Library of Congress
Pictorial Americana: Temperance
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/picamer/paTemper.html

Library of Congress
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Prohibition: A Case Study of Progressive Reform
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/prohib/prohib.html

Ohio State University
Temperance and Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu/

Woman's Christian Temperance Union
History of the WCTU
http://www.wctu.org/history.html

Tenements:

Library of Congress
Immigration . . . Italian: Tenements and Toil
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/alt/italian6.html

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html

Woman Suffrage:

Library of Congress
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

National Archives
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/

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