Lesson+6+Progressivism

=Lesson 6 Progressivism=

__**Social Issues during the Progressive Era Glogster**__
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** Muckrakers ** -- Journalists who wanted to inform people of social issues
[|Short You Tube clip on the Muckrakers] [|Muckrakers.ppt]

** Jacob Riis **-- journalist and photographer who wanted to draw attention to the conditions in the tenements
[|Jacob Riis video from the History Channel] [|Jacob Riis biography from PBS] [|Jacob Riis photographs]

** Lewis Hine **-- photographer who wanted to draw attention to problem of child labor
[|Lewis Hine and Social Change] [|Lewis Hine photos] [|Lewis Hine biography] [|Child labor video from the History Channel] [|Lewis Hine photos]

** Upton Sinclair ** -- journalist who wanted to draw attention to the unsanitary conditions in factories
[|C-Span video on Upton Sinclair (This is a long video.)] Shorter videos can be found on United Streaming under a search of the author's name. [|Short C-Span biography of Upton Sinclair]

** ﻿Ida Tarbell ** -- journalist who wanted to draw attention to unfair practices of big business
[|Biography of Ida Tarbell] [|Ida Tarbell video] [|Photos of Ida Tarbell]

** Suffragettes ** -- women who fought for voting rights
[|Suffrage and the Women Behind It photo gallery] [|Women's Suffrage Movement from Docs in a Box] [|Images from Women's Suffrage Movement from the Library of Congress] [|Explore the history of the Women's Suffrage Movement on Scholastic.com] [|Watch the Schoolhouse Rocks! video //Sufferin till Suffrage//] [|Read biographies of suffragists] [|Tactics and techniques of the NWP Suffrage Campaign] [|American women from the Library of Congress] [|Read an article that appeared in the //Beverly Beacon// (a women's newspaper in Beverly, MA) in 1913 entitled "Equal Suffrage" on page 11.]

** William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer ** -- newspaper publishers who created "yellow journalism"
[|Information on yellow journalism from PBS] [|Biography of William Randolph Hearst] [|Biography of Joseph Pulitzer] [|Headline gallery on PBS] [|Cartoon gallery on PBS]

__﻿Examples of Glogster Posters__
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