Working For Reform After 1900
ON YOUR OWN:
Watch all these movies about the Progressive Era.
Watch this movie about President Teddy Roosevelt.
Watch this slideshow on the Progressive Era.
Watch this movie about the Progressives, and watch all the videos on the page.
Watch this video on The Progressives.
Though this is not connected to this chapter, it is important for students to learn about the Panama Canal.
Also, even though this is not exactly connected to this unit, it is important for you to learn about the great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. You can learn about it here.
WITH A PARTNER:
Read about W.E.B. Du Boise.
Read about President Theodore Roosevelt.
Women Work For A Better America
Not connected to your unit, but since we just changed the time, let’s learn about Daylight Savings Time.
ON YOUR OWN:
Watch this movie about Ada Lovelace and answer the questions on the quiz.
Read all four stories about Jane Addams.
Learn about Susan B. Anthony in this movie and take the quizzes.
Learn about Helen Keller in this movie and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about women fighting for the right to vote. Please take the quizzes, too.
Learn more about women’s suffrage here.
Learn more about women’s suffrage. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner to see the words that are being spoken.
Watch this video on women organizing for the right to vote.
Watch this movie about Women and Progressives.
Learn about Helen Keller and take the quizzes.
Read about Susan B. Anthony.
Read about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Read about these two women:
Go to any of the sites listed below (or use the sites you have already read) and pick a woman who was alive sometime between 1870 and 1930. It can be one of the women you’ve already learned about in this unit, or someone else.
You will make a poster answering these questions about the woman:
1) Who was she and what did she do?
2) Why did you pick her?
In the same poster, please pick a woman who you know personally (your grandmother, mother, a teacher, etc.) who reminds you of the famous woman you picked to write about. Explain why she reminds you of that famous person.
* The Children’s Encyclopedia Of Women
* National Women’s Hall of Fame
* National Women’s History Project
* 300 Women Who Changed The World.
* Spartacus International: USA History — Women’s Suffrage
* The History Channel’s Women’s History Month
* Women’s Rights: A Pictorial History
* California Museum Women’s Trail
* You can also find more information here.
WITH A PARTNER:
Copy and paste this cloze about Elizabeth Cady Stanton on your Posterous blog and complete it.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW
Women’s Suffrage Brainpop Movie
Unions Help The Working People
ON YOUR OWN:
Learn about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and watch the video, too.
Learn more about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire here.
Learn about Major Labor Strikes and watch the video, too.
Watch this video on child labor.
Watch this video on the Rise of Unions.
Watch this video on industrial workers.
Complete this cloze about Labor Day.
WITH A PARTNER:
Read about organized labor.
Learn more about Labor Day here.
Unions are still active today. Look at these photos, and read the captions, about how a recent group of workers in Chicago refused to leave their factory when it closed because they hadn’t been paid.
Do you think the workers were right in doing what they did? Why or why not?
Big Business Grows Bigger
Complete this activity on John D. Rockefeller. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo
ON YOUR OWN:
Watch An Age of Big Business.
Watch this movie, too.
Read about Andrew Carnegie.
Read more about Andrew Carnegie.
Read a timeline of John D. Rockefeller’s life.
WITH A PARTNER:
Read about The Growth Of Big Business.
Learn about the Wealthiest Americans.
Starting A New Life In America
Watch this movie on immigration and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about Ellis Island.
Watch this movie about the Statue of Liberty and answer the questions on the quiz.
ON YOUR OWN
Be an immigrant in this interactive.
Watch and listen to this feature on Ellis Island. Be sure to click on the bottom right so you can see the words that are being spoken.
Watch this video on Immigrants.
Read more about immigration here.
Learn about the Statue of Liberty.
Here’s some more information on the Statue of Liberty.
Watch this movie of the Statue of Liberty filmed by Thomas Edison.
You can learn a lot more about the Statue of Liberty here.
Look through the Immigration Explorer. Find three interesting facts and write them down. You’ll be asked to share them with a partner, and to show them to your partner on the map.
Explore this Mare Island interactive.
Learn about Angel Island.
More on Angel Island.
WITH A PARTNER:
Read about immigration here.
Take a tour of Ellis Island.
Watch this video on Ellis Island.
Read about The Growth In Immigration.
ON YOUR OWN AGAIN:
First, use this Venn Diagram to write about the similarities and differences between your immigration experience and that of the immigrants you’ve learned about in this unit. Print it out. You can just write it on a piece of paper if you don’t want to use the online form.
Second, use this Compare/Contrast Map to plan your essay. Be sure to click on “Similarities to Differences.” Print-out your outline.
Third, write your essay on your website. These words might help you.
