Students evaluate the responses to the economic conditions of the Gilded Age, with emphasis on the Progressive Movement, the rise of labor unions, and resulting legislation (i.e., the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Federal Reserve System, and the Pure Food and Drug Act). Students evaluate additional social and political accomplishments of the Progressive Movement, with emphasis on contemporary social/ political conditions, (i.e., "separate but equal," the Great Migration, and Buck v. Bell) election reform, women's suffrage, Prohibition, and the responses of Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois. |