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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)
"An Indian's View of Indian Affairs" during the Gilded Age
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
A history of lynching and lynch laws in the US
Letter from a survivor of the Galveston Hurricane
Lynching from the POV of a Black woman, Mary Church Terrell
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