US History Academic Standards
USH.2.1 Evaluate the transformation of American society, economy and politics during the American Industrial Revolution.
C. Evaluate the contributions of muckrakers, including Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair, in changing government policies regarding child labor, working conditions and regulation of big business.
Oklahoma History Center Education Resources
E-Exhibit
Child Labor in Oklahoma: The Photographs of Lewis Hine, 1916–1917
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Carol Sue Humphrey, "Frances Falwell Threadgill"
Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford, "Barnard, Catherine Ann"
Online Primary Sources
"The Documents of Ida M. Tarbell," Allegheny College
Ida M. Tarbell, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," McClure's Magazine
Letter from Upton Sinclair to President Theodore Roosevelt, March 10, 1906
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (excerpts), Lumen Learning
Additional Resources
"Muckraking" for a Purpose, National Archives
"Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half," MCNY
D. Analyze major social reform movements including the Women's Suffrage and Temperance Movement and the leadership of Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Jane Addams.
Oklahoma History Center Education Resources
Traveling Trunk
Women of Oklahoma
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Linda W. Reese, "Women"
Bill Corbett, "Suffrage Amendment"
Tally D. Fugate, "Oklahoma Women's Suffrage Association"
Tally D. Fugate, "Anti-Suffrage Association"
Research Center Resources
Louise Boyd James, "The Woman Suffrage Issue in the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 56 (Winter 1978–79).
Louise Boyd James, "Woman's Suffrage, Oklahoma Style, 1890–1918," in Women in Oklahoma: A Century of Change, ed. Melvena Thurman (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1982).
Audio/Visual
Photograph of Susan B Anthony, c. 1820-1899 https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1618140/
"These women posed in front of a voting booth in Guthrie after they had cast their ballots, 30 years before woman suffrage was accepted in the United States" https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc357698/
Photograph of Suffragettes, Mrs. Ila Huff is on the far right. Photo by Manning Brothers, Detroit, MI, c.1910-1972 https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1594846/
Online Primary Sources
Alice Paul Institute
"Alice Paul Describes Force Feeding," Library of Congress
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House (excerpt), DPLA
Additional Resources
"Primary Source Set," National Women's History Museum
"Educational Materials," Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
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