Content Specification - SS.11.5.b.1:
Students will examine demographic trends associated with urbanization and immigration between 1840 and 1920, including push‐pull factors regarding Irish immigration and immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

Content Specification - SS.11.5.b.2:
Students will examine problems faced by farmers between 1870 and 1900 and examine the goals and achievements of the Grange Movement and the Populist Party.

Content Specification - SS.11.5.b.3:
Students will examine the attempts of workers to unionize from 1870 to 1920 in response to industrial working conditions, including the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor, the American Railway Union, the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, and the International Workers of the World, considering actions taken by the unions and the response to these actions.

Content Specification - SS.11.5.b.4:
Students will examine Progressive Era reforms, such as the 16th and 17th amendments (1913) and the establishment of the Federal Reserve System (1913).

Content Specification - SS.11.5.b.5:
Students will examine the efforts of the woman’s suffrage movement after 1900, leading to ratification of the 19th amendment (1920).

Content Specification - SS.11.5.b.6:
Students will trace the temperance and prohibition movements leading to the ratification of the 18th amendment (1919).

Content Specification - SS.11.5.b.7:
Students will trace reform efforts by individuals and the consequences of those efforts including: * Jane Addams and Hull House * Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives * New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt and the Tenement Reform Commission * Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and the Meat Inspection Act * Margaret Sanger and birth control * Ida Tarbell’s The History of the Standard Oil Company * Ida Wells and her writings about lynching of African Americans * Booker T. Washington’s contributions to education, including Tuskegee Institute * W. E. B. Du Bois and the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the publication of The Crisis and the Silent Protest (1917)