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The Progressive Era: Reforming Workplaces and Government
Analyze Progressive reform efforts targeting child labor, political corruption, food safety, and conservation.
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Industrialization, Innovation, and Social Change
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Analyze how technological innovations, industrial expansion, urbanization, and labor movements transformed American society and Wyoming.
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SS8.1.2Wyoming Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeExplain how to participate in the political process. (i.e., tribal, local, state, and national elections).
SS8.4.1Wyoming Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeDescribe how historical events impact the future (cause and effect) and how change spreads to other places (e.g., spread of industrial revolution or causes of the Civil War, impacts of Manifest Destiny, aftermath of French and Indian War, and progression of Indian Removal Act).