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Ms Cantwell & Mr. Lawlor's Eighth Grade
Research Assignment

Progressive Era
(late 1880s to 1920s)


Databases


General

African American Rights

American Social/Economic/Political Injustices

Muckraking Journalism

Banking Problems

Big Business, Monopolies, Trusts

Capitalism / Government led by Big Business (Socialist Movement)

Cartoons

Conservation / Environmental - Natural Resources

Consumer Foods - Meats & Medicine

Education

Farmers

Labor

  • see our Labor page for links to information about labor leaders, child labor, and the coal mining industry.

Peace Movement

Political Corruption in Cities

Political Reform

Spoils System

Temperance and Prohibition

Urban Conditions/Poverty

Women's Suffrage Movement

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