Contd. and Choosing a Research Topic

Because of the LS short period today, we will get right into the next Crash Course during class. Students will watch Crash Course -- The Progressive Era on their own. When finished, students will read one "muckraking" document according to the following:

• Lincoln Steffens--The Shame of the Cities-Eli, Jesus, Seth, Sarah, Andrew, Dani, Hope, Zoe
• Ida Tarbell -- The History of the Standard Oil Company-Charlie, Alina, Isabel, Luke, Zach, Will, Meshi
• Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle-Allison, Matt, Talia, Miles, Gil, Mackenzie, Anthony

Don't forget to continue to annotate according to the guidelines given at the start of the unit and fill in the main ideas of the documents that you read in your primary source organizer.

There has also been a change to the homework/Group Initial Research Doc in that you will only be doing one term tonight, F OR G (your pick). Don't forget to make sure that you are creating a critical question for each topic that you research.

Finally, students who are interesting in requesting a topic for their research papers are asked to look at the list below, and email Mr. Kramer with requests by 9 pm Monday evening. The list of potential topics is below.

Native American Policy, Native American Wars (Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, etc.), Federal Policy and Westward Expansion (Homestead Act, Morrill Act, etc.), Revolution in Agriculture, Populism and the Election of 1896, Development of Labor Unions , Labor Unrest (Strikes and Demonstrations), Railroads, Industry – Steel and Oil, Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons, Social Darwinism and Eugenics,

The New Immigrants – Southern and Eastern Europe, The New Immigrants – Asia, Challenges of Urbanization and Urban Planning (Olmstead, Burnham, etc.), The Rise of the Political Machine, Muckrakers, Temperance Movement, Women’s Suffrage, Efforts at Election/Government Reform, T. Roosevelt and the Square Deal, Wilson and the New Freedom,