Timeline Assignment

First, you will read Pages 306-312 and 317-327 of your textbook. Then, you will create a timeline of
important events in the history of civil rights and progressive reform between 1890 and 1920.

Aim for at least 10 events. Here are some possible events to include (this list is obviously not in chronological order):
 Formation of the Anti-Saloon League
 Booker T. Washington dines with Theodore Roosevelt
 Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” speech
 Eighteenth Amendment
 Great Pennsylvania Coal Strike
 Hepburn Act
 Ida Tarbell publishes “History of the Standard Oil Company”
 Illinois Factory Act
 Keating-Owen Act
 Meat Inspection Act
 Muller v. Oregon
 Formation of the NAACP
 Newlands Act (National Reclamation Act)
 Niagara Falls Civil Rights Convention
 Pure Food and Drug Act
 Seventeenth Amendment
 Formation of the Socialist Party
 Triangle Shirtwaist fire
 Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
 Formation of Yosemite National Park

For some, a URL is included that links you to an article with more information about the event. Placing
them by year is sufficient.

For each event, write two sentences about the event. For the first sentence, identify the event. For the
second sentence, state the significance of the event.

Create a timeline using the website TimelineJS. You can view their tutorial at
http://timeline.knightlab.com/#make . You will need to fill out a template, which can be found here. I’ll
walk you through how to fill out the template below. When you have finished the template, follow
Steps 2, 3 and 4 as listed on TimelineJS. Make sure you input the correct URL.
 The purple row is the title
row. The only thing to do
in this row is to replace
STATEYOURNAME with
In the first column,
your name
put the year the
events happened
In the text column, put your two sentences
of identification and significance
In the headline You can add media
column, put the if you want but it’s
title of the event not mandatory

When you have completed the assignment, please e-mail the URL to me at
charleshbennett89@csu.fullerton.edu . There are 10 points possible for this assignment. It will be graded
using the following 5 criteria. Students will receive between 0 and 2 points for each criterion.

Correct V+ (2 points) V (1 point) V- (0 points)

1. Number of events
2. Accuracy of dates
3. First sentence
4. Second sentence
5. Language
Timeline contains 10
events
Years of events are
correct
There is a sentence for
each event that
identifies the event.
There is a sentence for
each event that states
the significance of the
event.
Word use, grammar,
spelling and punctuation
are correct & complete
Timeline contains Timeline has 6 events or
between 7 and 9 events fewer
Some years of events Many years of events
are incorrect are incorrect
Some sentences do not Several of the first
completely identify the sentences are missing
event. or fail to identify the
event
Some sentences do not Several of the second
completely state the sentences are missing
significance of the or fail to state the
event. significance of event
Some errors in word Many errors in word
use, grammar, spelling use, grammar, spelling
and punctuation and punctuation
Rubric an original work of Charles Bennett

The assignment is due at the end of class tomorrow. You have the remainder of the class period and all
of next class period, plus any amount of time out of class, to complete the assignment.
Objectives met:
 Students will identify, describe and demonstrate the significance of the conditions of
American life in the year 1900
 Students will identify, describe, and demonstrate the significance of the writings of Upton
Sinclair, Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens
 Students will identify differences in the role of the American government, both at home and
abroad, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries