Using Historical Thinking Skills: Progressive Era

This lesson introduces students to using historical thinking skills to analyze historical documents. It includes three activities that support students to source, contextualize, and corroborate documents about the Progressive Era.

Note: There are four Using Historical Thinking Skills lessons. All of these lessons introduce students to sourcing, contextualization, and corroboration and follow a similar format but feature documents on different time periods: The American Revolution, Westward Expansion, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era.