US History · Week 12 · Industrialization, Immigration, and Reform
Progressives Take Action
Students learn how Progressives, including Hiram Johnson in California, won reforms such as the initiative, referendum, and recall and plan how a group can improve their school.
- Students will
- Students understand the effect of Progressive programs and leaders, including Hiram Johnson's initiative, referendum, and recall, and evaluate how effectively citizens address a problem at the school level.
- SEL skill
- Plan how a group can persuade fairly and share the work
- What it looks like
- Students practice influencing others with integrity by planning how a group can persuade fairly and work as a team.
- Content focus
- Progressives take action
- Format
- Group roles share
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building and keeping healthy relationships by communicating clearly, listening well, cooperating, and working through conflict. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 11.2.9: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 11: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (standard 11.2, item 9)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HI4 Understand the meaning and impact of historical events and recognize that events could have taken other directions. (Historical Interpretation)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.5.9-12 Evaluate how well citizens and institutions address social and political problems at local, state, tribal, national, and international levels.
- Literacy in history: WHST.11-12.7 Conduct short and sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem.
Fits these textbook chapters
- American History: Reconstruction to the Present, Module 5: Progressivism
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 16: Uncovering Problems at the Turn of the Century
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 17: The Progressives Respond
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 18: Progressivism on the National Stage
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 27: The Politics of Normalcy
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 33: The New Deal and Its Legacy
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More relationship skills activities for US History
- Debating the Constitution Relationship skillsStudents compare Federalist and Antifederalist arguments over ratification and practice deliberating respectfully with someone who sees an issue differently.
- Rebuilding After the Civil War Relationship skillsStudents learn how freedpeople rebuilt families, founded schools and churches, and voted during Reconstruction and consider what real repair after deep harm requires.
- Japanese American Incarceration Relationship skillsStudents examine the forced removal of Japanese Americans, Korematsu v. United States, and the 1988 apology and redress, and consider what a sincere apology requires.
- Letter From Birmingham Jail Relationship skillsStudents analyze how Martin Luther King Jr. answered his critics with reason and restraint and practice responding to criticism without losing their temper.
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