Progressive Era Web quest - Dearborn Public Schools



Progressive Era-WebQuest

Directions: With a partner locate the following websites and answer the questions for each corresponding site.

(you may also find this on the home page under “Progressive Era to new era 1900-1929.)

1. What was the goal of the Progressive Movement?

Now click on the Conservation in the Progressive Era link on the right of the screen in green (the link is )

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

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

Now go back to the Progressive era page and click the Prohibition link or you may simply click:

4.) Why did the movement against alcohol start after the 1830s?

5.) Where was the movement most successful?

6.) What was the purpose of the 18th amendment? What was the result of its passage?

Click the link below: The Progressive Movement featured the revolution of the way city governments operated. This information describes the different types of city governments that emerged during the Progressive Era.



7.) Describe Mayor-Council Form

8.) Describe Commission Form

9.) Describe Council-Manager Form

Next click the “Women’s sphere” cartoon on the following website:

10.) How are women stereotyped in this cartoon?

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

Scroll down to the Women’s Rights movement and click on the Women’s movement timeline or click the link

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

13.) Name three important women in the fight for women’s suffrage and their role in the fight.

14.) Which U.S. Amendment gave women the right to vote? When was the Amendment passed?

Use the following link to learn about Muckrakers: 15.) After reading the passage how might you explain what a Muckraker is?

Now you will read an excerpt from The Jungle, written by a famous Muckraker, Upton Sinclair. Click on the link

16.) What is subject of the book The Jungle?

Use the following link to learn about Teddy Roosevelt The Trust Buster

17.) What was Teddy Roosevelt’s tool for busting up the trusts?

18.) What did that law say?

19.) Which of J.P. Morgan’s companies to Teddy file a lawsuit against?

20.) What is the difference between a “good” trust and a “bad” trust?

Use the following link to learn about

21.) What percentage of the vote did Woodrow Wilson win in the election of 1912?

22.) What was the name of his program for Progressive Reform?

23.) What did the Federal Reserve Act do?

24.) What was the purpose of the Federal Trade Commission?

25.) What did the Clayton Anti-Trust Act do?

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