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11th Grade Mid-Year History Writing Task History Writing Task 11th GRADE Mid-Year 2014-15 The Progressive Era Student Name: School Name: Teacher Name: Room #: Class Period: OUSD_History Writing Task_G11_Mid-Year 2014-15 STUDENT VERSION PAGE 1 Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS 11th Grade Mid-Year History Writing Task TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BUILDING HISTORICAL CONTEXT READING THE SOURCE DOCUMENTS DOCUMENT #1: New York City Tenements DOCUMENT #2: The Jungle DOCUMENT #3: Muller v. Oregon, Supreme Court Decision DOCUMENT #4: Anti-Lynching Writing DOCUMENT #5: Women’s Suffrage Poster DOCUMENT #6: Map of Conservation Lands DOCUMENT #7: Child Labor and Education Statistics DOCUMENT #8: United States Anti-Trust Law DOCUMENT #9:†¦show more content†¦Jacob Riis photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the century, where as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New City’s Lower East Side. Guiding Question: Which condition(s) does this document reflect? (âÅ"“) ⠝’ free society ⠝’ humane society ⠝’ both Based on this document, how successful were reformers in making the United States a freer and more humane society? OUSD_History Writing Task_G11_Mid-Year 2014-15 STUDENT VERSION PAGE 5 Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS 11th Grade Mid-Year History Writing Task DOCUMENT #2: The Jungle The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Excerpt), 1906. Sinclair reports on the meat packing industry in Chicago, IL. â€Å"†¦And then there was the condemned meat industry, with its endless horrors. The people of Chicago saw the government inspectors from Packingtown [the meat packing district of Chicago], and they all took that to mean that they were protected from diseased meat; they did not understand that these hundred and sixty-three inspectors had been selected at the request of the packing company, and that they were paid by the United States government to ensure that all the diseased meat was kept in the state. They had no authority beyond that; for the inspection of meat to be sold in the city and state the whole force in