M4 Overview

Module 4 - PROGRESSIVE REFORM

 Poster promoting Votes for Women

 image from Digital History Links to an external site.

Lesson Objectives:

 Upon completion of this lesson, students should be able to:

  •     evaluate Progressivism and the politics of women’s rights
  •     outline the creation and maintenance of Jim Crow segregation

 Module Audio Introduction (Transcript

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Activities for Module 4:

  • Text Reading from Digital History Links to an external site.In this module, you'll be reading about the Progressive Era.

  • Video Viewing: You'll get to see history in action viewing the following video
    •  Booker T. Washington:  What’s a Heaven For?:  17 min biography of the African American founder of the Tuskegee Institute.
  • Journal Reflection: You'll have an opportunity to write about what you've learned from this module's resources.