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Fourth Grade

Unit 1 | Select Websites

Topic: Timelines

  • Progressive Movement Timeline
  • Progressive Era Timelines: 1869-1921
  • The Labor Movement 
  • Child Labor in the U.S.


Topic: Background Resourcesl

  • Indexed Links to Progressive Era Sites 
  • Small town USA – period photos
  • Theodore Roosevelt film collection
  • Photo tour of turn-of-the-century U.S.
  • Conservation Movement origins
  • Inside an American Factory
  • Definition for Muckraker
  • Child Labor Photographs
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Online Exhibit


Topic: Concepts in Economics

  • Have you ever wondered what the value of a dollar was in 1895? Or what the GDP was in 1929? Here is a place where you can ask questions of comparative value covering purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today.
  • Frequently Asked Questions : about the Consumer Price Index, from Bureau and Labor Statistics
  • Inflation Calculator: you choose initial year and cost and future year

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