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Progressive Era Project

Directions: Over the next two days, you will be exploring one of the areas of reform from the Progressive Era
in the early 1900s. Your group will be assigned one of the following areas of reform:

Education Women’s Rights

Environment Labor Movement
Government Settlement House Movement
Prohibition Urban Reforms

Step 1: You will create a Slides Presentation to include the following information:
1. Summary of the Movement: When did start/end, what were the goals?
2. Key Players: Who was involved in the movement? Introduce those people.
3. Legislation: What laws or acts were passed as a result of the movement?
4. Result: What was the outcome of the movement overall? Did it make an impact?
Evaluate: How effective was the movement? Why do you think this?

Step 2: You will design a poster to support the movement that your group was assigned. Your goal is to
gain support for your movement and encourage people to get involved in creating change as if it were the
early 1900s. Be creative!!

Resources: Here are some helpful links to get you started on your research. Be sure to include a works cited
slide at the end of your presentation. NO WIKIPEDIA!!

Britannica
Gilder Lehrman (check out other resources on this page too)
Library of Congress
Visitthecapitol.gov
Your textbook
History.com
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Rubric
Step 1: Slides Presentation 20 Points
1. Summary of the Movement: When did start/end, what were the goals?
2. Key Players: Who was involved in the movement? Introduce those people.
3. Legislation: What laws or acts were passed as a result of the movement?
4. Result: What was the outcome of the movement overall? Did it make an impact?
Evaluate: How effective was the movement? Why do you think this?
5. Works Cited Slide

5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1-0 points

Summary Summary includes Summary includes Summary gives a Summary gives a Incomplete/
the main points the main points general idea of vague, general Missing
from the from the when the overview of the
movement, states movement, states movement began movement, may
what goals the what goals the and ended and include
movement had, movement had, attempts to state misinformation.
when and where when and where some of the goals
the movement the movement of the movement.
began, took place, began, took place, No specific
and ended in detail. and ended in detail. information is
Provides specific Lacks specific given.
information. information.

Key Players Slide identifies at Slide identifies at Slide identifies at Slide gives only Incomplete/
least 3 people least 2 people least 1 person general information Missing
involved in the involved in the involved in the about who was
movement and movement and movement and involved in the
explains in detail explains in detail explains in detail movement and
who those people who those people who that person does not tell
were and what they were and what they was and what anything specific
contributed. contributed. he/she contributed. about them.

Result/Evaluate Slide explains the Slide explains the Slide gives a Slide gives a vague Incomplete/
outcome of the outcome of the general overview of description without Missing
movement in detail, movement in detail, the outcome of the specific examples
gives specific but lacks specific movement ,but or details, does not
examples, and examples, and lacks specific take a stance on the
takes a stance on takes a stance on examples, and may effectiveness of the
how effective the how effective the not take a stance on movement
movement was. movement was. how effective the
movement was.

Works Cited Complete Incomplete Not Present

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Step 2: “Poster” 20 Points

Words/ Phrase / Slogan - 5pts

Colored & Neat - 5pts
Logo/symbol/ some sort of Animation - 5pts
Accurately displays/ represents your movement - 5pts

https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Progressive-era
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/progressive_era_reform_movements.
pdf
http://mrjohnsonlhs112.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/9/0/12900980/progressive_era_reform_poster_
project.pdf
http://institute-of-progressive-education-and-learning.org/k-12-education/demographics-districts/
the-progressive-era/
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/conserve/
https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/congress-and-progressive-era-part-2/eighteenth-ame
ndment-prohibition