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Progressive Era Web Quest US History

The document provides instructions for a Progressive Era web quest that directs students to answer questions by exploring various links on a Library of Congress website about the Progressive Era. The questions cover topics like conservation efforts during the Progressive Era, the temperance movement and prohibition, women's suffrage, and Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle which exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry and prompted new food safety laws. The web quest aims to teach students about key social reforms and events of the Progressive Era through online sources.

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Progressive Era Web Quest US History

The document provides instructions for a Progressive Era web quest that directs students to answer questions by exploring various links on a Library of Congress website about the Progressive Era. The questions cover topics like conservation efforts during the Progressive Era, the temperance movement and prohibition, women's suffrage, and Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle which exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry and prompted new food safety laws. The web quest aims to teach students about key social reforms and events of the Progressive Era through online sources.

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Progressive Era Web Quest US History

Name: _______________________________________________ Period_________________________

Go to the following website


http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/progress.html

The link above will be your homepage for this project. If you get confused, just type this
address in the computer to find your place. If you have trouble accessing the site, go to
Google and type in Progressive Era Web quest and find the appropriate site. Use this site
homepage to answer Question 1. Then follow all directions and links to complete the entire
Web Quest. ALL ANSWERS MUST BE IN COPLETE SENTENCES

1) What was the goal of the Progressive Movement?

For Question #2, click on the “Conservation in the Progressive Era link on the right of the screen
in green (the link is
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/conserve/conserve.html)

2) Why had Americans developed a “tradition of waste”?

Next click on the “the link below to answer Question 3

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/site/c.elKSIdOWIiJ8H/b.8344385/k.114A/The_Conservationi
st.htm

3) What did President Teddy Roosevelt do in terms of conservation?


Now go back to the Progressive Era Home page

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/progress.html

Then to answer Question 4 - 6 click on the “Prohibition Case Study” link on the right side of the
screen in green (the link is):

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/prohib/prohib.html

4) Why was there a movement since the 1830’s against alcohol?

5) Where was the movement most successful?

6) What was the 18th amendment? What was the result of the 18th amendment?

Now simply click the link below to answer Question 7:


http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/prohib/poured.html

7. What is Mac Currie’s primary objection to prohibition?


Next click on the link below “Only sucker’s work” for Q.8

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/prohib/suckers.html

8. What was the bootlegger’s attitude toward Prohibition? The authorities?

Now go to google images & type in: Temperance Movement Cartoons, and answer Q.9

9. Browse temperance movement cartoons. Choose one cartoon, copy it here, and interpret the
cartoonist’s perspective on the evils of alcohol.
Now click back to the link
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/suffrage/suffrage.html

THEN,

On the right hand side of the page in the green, click the “Women’s sphere” cartoon (or click the
link to answer Q. 10-11

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/suffrage/cartoon.html )

10. How are women stereotyped in this cartoon?

11. What statement was the cartoonist trying to make with this cartoon?

Click back and click on Robert La Follette’s on women’s public role to answer Q.12-13, or
simply click
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/suffrage/publrole.html

12. Who is Robert LaFolette?

13. What did he think of woman’s suffrage and participation in public affairs? (be specific)
Go back to your home page (the gray screen) or simply click the link
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timelin
e/progress/progress.html

Scroll down to the Women’s Rights movement and click on the Women’s movement timeline to
answer Q.14-17, or click the link http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html

14. What state was the first to allow women’s suffrage (right to vote)?

15. Name 3 important women in the fight for women’s suffrage and their role in the fight.

16. What US Amendment gave women the right to vote? When was it passed?

17. Browse the remainder of the woman’s rights timeline. What do you think is the most
important event in women’s rights history since the women’s suffrage amendment? Why did
you choose this event?
Now you will read an excerpt from The Jungle, written by a famous Muckraker, Upton Sinclair.
Click on the link http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/jungle/

Then answer Q.18

18. What is subject of the book The Jungle?

Now click on chapter 3 or click the link http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/jungle/3?


term=entering%20one%20of%20the%20durham%20buildings

Scroll down to the paragraph that starts with “Entering one of the Durham buildings and read the
rest of the Chapter 3 excerpt from Muckraker Upton Sinclair’s the Jungle. Then answer Q.19

19. What about this story would prompt Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure
Food and Drug Act (you read about both of these in Chapter 9)? (Describe 2-3 excerpts)

REFLECTION

Give a brief reflection of what you learned from completing this Progressive Era Web Quest (1-2
paragraphs)

20.

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