Progressive Era
Statue of Liberty- Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
This site allows you to do a variety of things such as search immigration records for relatives, and create your own family scrapbook. This site is also helpful because it contains five different personal stories from immigrants and a detailed timeline of immigration. - M.D.http://www.ellisisland.org/default.asp
The Tenement as History and Housing
This webpage lets you view pictures and discusses the history of tenement housing. It explains in detail about the Law of 1867. It also describes the boom of immigration and gives you a story of one particular building. - M.D.http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/eagle.html
Women in the Progressive Era
This website describes how millions of people worked to solve problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. This site goes into more detail of women’s roles during the Progressive Era including women’s suffrage and housing for the immigrants. - A.K.http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/prog.htm
Cartoons of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
This website has a limited selection of political cartoons that deal with events in the beginning of the twentieth century. This can be useful for practicing document-based questions. - A.K.http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscarto...
America’s Story from America’s Library:
There is a great deal of information on the Progressive Era. There are a lot of links to other websites and documents. There is also a useful timeline on the top of the page. - M.W.http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb...
The Progressive Era- 1879 to 1917:
This website has a useful timeline of important historical events that occurred during the Progressive Era; little information is available on this website besides the timeline. There are a few links to other websites with information pertinent to the Progressive Era. The author is David W. Koeller. - M.W.http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/USA/P...
The Learning Page: The Progressive Era to the New Era-1900 to 1929
This website is very impressive not only because of the information that is presented but also because of all the teacher resources that are available. There are many useful links that are listed to find documents and other websites relevant to this web page. - M.W.http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timel...
Anti-Saloon League 1893-1933
This website contains a wealth of printed materials left by the Anti-Saloon League, a temperance organization that had substantial influence in the temperance movement in U.S. history, to the Westerville Public Library. These materials include political cartoons, posters, and song lyrics. Beth Weinhardt, local history coordinator in Westerville, organized the materials. All documents contain references to sources and authors. - J.S.C.http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/
