Progressive Era

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Police place victims of a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in their coffins on March 25, 1911.

"Coffins of Victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire." Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. George Grantham Bain Collection. American History Online. Facts On File, Inc.

Recommended Websites:

Progressive Era (General):

• Irondequoit High School's collection of links:
• Billy Mason's (awesome) lecture notes (From Hoggard High School -- This is a great outline of important terms, people, and events!)

Chicago Fire
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/
Losses of the Fire (primary source)
Chicago and the Great Conflagration (book)
141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire (NY Times article)

Child Labor
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html

Temperance
http://prohibition.osu.edu/
Carrie Nation
Prohibition (PBS)


Poverty
http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/eagle.html


Triangle Fire
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
"We Have Found You Wanting" (Speech)


Women’s
http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9803/suffrage.html


How the Other Half Lives
http://www.tenant.net/Community/riis/title.html



Rubinger -- Progressive Era Issues:

1. Temperance/Prohibition

2. Women’s Rights

• Suffrage Movement & 19th Amendment

3. Safety and Health Codes

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire


• The Great Chicago Fire of 1871


• Meat Packing Industry/ Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”

4. Bad Working Conditions

•  1914 Ludlow Massacre


• Lowell Mill Textile Factory

5. Poverty, Urban living, and Child Labor

• Jacob Riis’s “How The Other Half Lives”


• John Spargo’s “The Bitter Cry of the Children”