Virginia SOL USII.3.c
The Standard
evaluating and explaining the impact of the Progressive Movement on child labor, working conditions, the rise of organized labor, support for eugenics as a social policy, immigration policy, women’s suffrage, and the temperance movement
Virginia Standards of Learning for History and Social Science
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Progressive reforms affected child labor, workplaces, unions, immigration, voting rights, temperance, and eugenics policies. They judge who benefited, who was harmed, and why.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students connect each problem to a reform and its effects using historical evidence. They distinguish reforms that expanded rights from discriminatory policies such as eugenics and immigration restrictions.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume all Progressives agreed and all reforms helped society. They may confuse temperance with Prohibition, suffrage with broader equality, or eugenics with valid science.
How to Assess It
- Give students the seven issues and ask them to label each impact as helpful, harmful, or mixed. They must explain one label with evidence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Sort reform cards under child labor, workplaces, unions, eugenics, immigration, suffrage, and temperance, then link each to an impact card.
Write: Which Progressive action expanded rights most, and which caused greatest harm? Support both choices with evidence.
Play cause-and-effect matching with reform, goal, affected group, and result cards, requiring a spoken explanation for every completed set.
Compare a 1911 factory photograph with a current workplace safety poster, then list three changes and one remaining concern.
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