Enrichment Materials: Progressive Era

These enrichment materials build upon concepts introduced in US History and Advanced US History courses. They incorporate and link perspectives from a wide array of peoples during this time period.

African Americans in the Progressive Era (Gilded Age)

Collection presented by the Women’s Suffrage Association, detailing the fight for the female right to vote

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"An Indian's View of Indian Affairs" during the Gilded Age

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The Roman Catholic Church

Chinese Exclusion Act

The 1911 Triangle Factory Fire

Photos from the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Puerto Rico in the Progressive Era

Anti-Saloon League (league pushing for prohibition of alcohol)

Excerpts from the Masses, a socialist magazine

Women working in the Progressive Era

Photographs of Native Americans during this time period

Documents detailing the life of immigrants in America

Oral-history interviews discussing life in the Jim Crow South

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A history of lynching and lynch laws in the US

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Letter from a survivor of the Galveston Hurricane

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Lynching from the POV of a Black woman, Mary Church Terrell

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The life of Lee Chew, a Chinese immigrant