1. Aim: Who should be voted America’s next top muckraker?
Progressive Era
Aim: Who should be voted America’s next top muckraker?

2. Motivation
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead ( ) (1) What is Mead suggesting? (2) Agree or disagree with the quote? (3) In what ways does this quote connect to the HW chapter?

3. (3) Do such problems, or a similar problems, exist today?
Aim: How did the progressive era contribute to the transformation of American society, politics, and economics?
Vocabulary
Muckraker
Names of muckrakers
Essential Questions:
(1) What were the major problems in American society during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era?
(2) What kind of government aid may be necessary to solve these problems?
(3) Do such problems, or a similar problems, exist today?

4. Get into groups – you will then be assigned roles
Get into groups – you will then be assigned roles. Each group will be divided into pairs and be responsible for a particular muckraker or philanthropist.
You are either a muckraker or a philanthropist. Your roles give you directions for your task. Muckrakers, you are to make a case as to why you should get the philanthropist’s money! While you are preparing for you argument for tomorrow (when you will rotate around the room and make your cases) you should look at the rubric that is being used to evaluate you and use strong, specific reasoning in your argument.

5. Jane Addams, “Twenty Years at Hull House” – addressed urban life and immigrant tenements, resulting in efforts to provide impoverished with skills and services (edu).
Carrie Chapman Catt, “On Women’s Suffrage” – the right for women to vote
Theodore Roosevelt, “The Conservation of Natural Resources” – responsible for conserving land and creating national parks.
Margaret Sanger, “No Gods, No Masters” - supported contraceptives for women; started what was to become Planned Parenthood; and coined term “birth control.”
Upton Sinclair, “Horror in the Workplace” (The Jungle) – conditions in the factory.
John Spargo, “The Bitter Cry of Children”
Lincoln Steffens Discusses Philadelphia Bossism – wrote “The Shame of the Cities;” challenged political machines; La Follette, even before he was elected Governor of Wisconsin spoke out against the machines.
Ida Tarbell, “A Muckraker’s Expose of Standard Oil” – exposed big business, pushed to do so because of her father’s small business.
Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America” – treatment of African Americans.

7. Assignment:
Each person in your group should read the Progressive Party platform as well as the work of one muckraker. You will then fill in the row on the grid that corresponds to the work you read. Please discuss both of the documents that you read and fill in the grid together. After you fill in the grid, consider the following: