Indiana Social Studies IS.1.14
The Standard
Explain the origins, goals, achievements, and limitations of the Progressive Movement in addressing political, economic, and social reform in Indiana.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Progressive Era Politics, Economics, and Social Reform in Indiana: 1888 to 1920
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect factory injuries and women's voting campaigns to changes in Indiana law. They explain who gained protection or voting rights, and how one reform harmed people held in state institutions.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why Indiana passed its 1915 workers' compensation law and what injured workers gained. They can describe Indiana's 1920 suffrage ratification and explain the harm caused by its 1907 sterilization law.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Indiana women gained full voting rights under a 1917 law, which the state supreme court struck down. They may assume every Progressive reform helped people, overlooking the harm caused by forced sterilization.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did factory injuries lead to Indiana's 1915 workers' compensation law? Name its goal and one result, then explain whom the 1907 sterilization law harmed.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print excerpts from Indiana's 1907 sterilization law and 1915 workers' compensation law; have students mark each law's stated purpose and people affected.
Ask students to write: Who gained protection under the 1915 law, and who was harmed by the 1907 law?
Give pairs three date cards, 1907, 1915, and 1920, to match with sterilization, workers' compensation, and suffrage ratification cards.
Compare a current Indiana workers' compensation notice with a summary of the 1915 law; have students underline a protection that remains.
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