Evaluating Progressive Era Reforms

Answer the question below. In your response you should do the following. • Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. • Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. • Support an argument in response to the prompt using specific and relevant examples of evidence. • Use historical reasoning (e.g., comparison, causation, continuity or change over time) to frame or structure an argument that addresses the prompt. • Use evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt.

Evaluate the effectiveness of Progressive Era reforms and reformers in addressing problems which arose in America during the Gilded Age. Address TWO of the following in your response:

Workplace and Business Reform Government and Political Reform Social and Moral Reforms