Reforms of the Progressive Era

Choose one of the above following reform movements and create an original PowerPoint (6-8 slides) with notes about your topic.  Be sure to include the movement, the people, and the impact on society then and now!

The attached is a helpful start to your presentation.

This is a brief list of some of the major reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Unionism/Rise of unions
• Trustbusting/Antitrust law
• Temperance/Prohibition
• Suffrage
• Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
• Industrial regulation
• Social reform/Settlement houses
• Political reform
• Conservation/environmentalism
• Federal Reserve Act of 1913

This writing assignment aligns with course level objectives 1-7 and module level objectives 1-9.