Start with an interactive Progressive Era review, then connect reform at home to a changing U.S. role abroad.
Use this browser-based activity for a review station, partner practice, or a projected class challenge.
Students jump between city rooftops and land on question platforms to answer 15 questions about muckrakers, settlement houses, temperance, women’s suffrage, trust-busting, consumer protection, direct democracy, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and labor reform.
Play Progressive Era Sky ClimbUse these compact points to frame the game, clarify vocabulary, or guide a short debrief.
Rapid industrialization and urbanization intensified concerns about unsafe work, concentrated corporate power, poverty, and government corruption.
Muckrakers and settlement-house leaders publicized conditions and organized responses, turning evidence into pressure for change.
Direct democracy measures, direct election of senators, and women’s suffrage sought to expand public influence in government.
Antitrust efforts, food and drug laws, and labor reforms expanded expectations that government should protect workers and consumers.
Study domestic reform alongside imperialism to compare debates over democracy and power at home and abroad.
After every five platforms, pause for students to sort the reforms they encountered into political, social, labor, or consumer categories. Their exit ticket should connect one reform to the industrial-era problem it addressed.