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Social Issues during the Progressive Era
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Ages: 4 - 10
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As progress brings the city directly around a little house, the house becomes more and more depressed in this cartoon. The video introduces young learners to environmental issues, social issues, and urban sprawl.
December 29, 2009 at 03:18 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "In the decades following the Civil War, many Americans migrated from farms and small country towns to the growing cities. Immigrants from several countries, including Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Poland traveled to... America in search of better working and living conditions for themselves and their families. Between 1870 and 1900, the population of U.S. cities tripled. By 1890, New York became the second largest city in the world with 3.5 million residents, while Chicago and Philadelphia claimed more than one million city dwellers each. By 1920, nearly half of the nation’s population lived in urban areas. The diverse needs of the swelling population forced drastic changes to the physical and social make-up of the American city..." (Professionally produced material with scholarly ideas and arguments.)
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December 29, 2009 at 01:01 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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While some Americans were concerned with the increasing immigration into the United States; others feared modernism and new ideas might usurp the authority of the church. For many of the millions of people who lived in rural areas, towns, and small c...ities around the country, it was not the great urban migration that was a problem, it was that urban culture itself seemed to be wicked, materialistic, and detrimental to moral character.
As Americans abandoned the country in droves and moved to large cities, new ideas emerged among these urban transplants as the influence of modernism was taking hold. More than ever before, education was a priority in Americans’ lives. Many states started to require students to attend school until the age of sixteen or eighteen. A professor from Columbia University, John Dewey, founded the progressive educational movement by promoting the principles of “learning by doing.” (Video is narrated with slides and speeches.)
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December 7, 2009 at 09:44 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "During the Progressive Era, lawmakers at both state and federal levels introduced laws and regulations to protect citizens at home and work. Although many states had already passed social-minded legislation before ...the Progressive Movement, many of the laws were poorly written and could not be adequately enforced. For example, in 1874, Massachusetts restricted women and children workers to 10-hour workdays. In 1882, New York attacked the sweatshops by prohibiting cigar manufacturing on property occupied as a residence. And in 1901, New York enacted a tenement house law that required better ventilation, fireproofing, and plumbing for each apartment. However, powerful manufacturers and landlords hired high-priced lawyers to find holes in the bills and defeated the regulations..." (Well-produced video with slides and narration.)
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December 30, 2009 at 05:13 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "As the Progressive Movement strengthened its challenge to conventional attitudes in America, feminists used the platform to gain support for woman suffrage. In 1890, two major women’s groups—American Woman’s Suffra...ge Association and National Woman’s Suffrage Association—joined forces to create the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The group looked to gain support for many issues of concern to women, but concentrated on a state-by-state approach to win voting rights. Lawmakers in Wyoming were the first to give women voting privileges, and by 1896, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho followed suit. After the turn of the century, leaders of a new association, the Congressional Union, took the campaign to the national level..." (Well-produced video with slides and narration.)
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December 30, 2009 at 05:15 PM
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