Progressive Era

Students will analyze 20 documents, answer 20 historical context questions, complete a sorting chart, and write a DBQ essay to review either the social or political aspects of the Progressive Era. There are 12 essay prompts for students to choose from,...

These are 375+ focus questions, thinking prompts, essential questions, objectives, guiding questions, review questions, writing prompts, even test or essay questions that you can use for all of U.S. History (American History). They would work as part of...

Students review key people and events from the Progressive Era by matching 20 historical pictures to a caption or dialogue exchange. This includes a teacher information page which explains the activity in its entirety. This is best done as a gallery walk...

Students review key people and events related to US History by matching 20 historical images to a caption or dialogue exchange for the following topics: Exploration, Revolutionary War, Washington to Jefferson, Westward Expansion, the Civil War,...

Students read background information about suffrage and women's fight to get the right to vote, culminating in the 19th Amendment. There are 9 opinion based questions scattered through the paragraphs that students can answer individually or in pairs. The...

Students will read and analyze Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom speeches by answering 30 questions (including looking at similarities and differences between them) and completing 2 extension tasks. The answers are...

  Students will compare and contrast speech excerpts from early Civil Rights activists Washington and DuBois by answering 16 questions and completing a sorting chart. Then they will read excerpts from the majority and dissenting opinions from...

Students read excerpts from the Roosevelt Corollary, answer 15 questions of varying degrees of difficulty, and analyze 6 images according to 5 prompts. The answers are included where appropriate and this would be great for a sub!  Sample questions...

Students will read excerpts from the 16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, 18th Amendment, and 19th Amendment and analyze 12 related images. They will then answer 14 questions and complete one creative task. The answers are included where appropriate and this...

Do your students need a review over the Gilded Age & Progressive Era? Do you want to review in a fun way and not throw another worksheet at them? Swat the Star is the answer!   This is a fun way to review for your test or for your...

Are you looking for a hands-on review for U.S. History? This is a BUNDLE of my 10 vocabulary matching units for US History. Simply print, cut and put the cards in baggies. I love to have students review in stations around my...

Are your students needing a digital "break" from screen time? This is a hands-on review for the Progressive Era - vocabulary matching. I use this activity in stations to review! I also love to have groups race against each other to add a...