Progressive Era Journal

Students read an excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt’s New Nationalism speech (1910) and write a historical-perspective journal entry. They choose a viewpoint-worker, reformer, immigrant, business owner, or factory parent-and react to Roosevelt’s ideas about regulating big business. The worksheet promotes historical empathy by asking students to consider personal impact, fairness, and desired government action. It also requires complete paragraph writing using evidence from the passage. This activity deepens insight into Progressive Era debates about economic power and government responsibility.

Curriculum Matched Skills

Social Studies – Primary Source Analysis

ELA – Perspective Writing & Evidence Use

Civics – Government Regulation & Economic Fairness

History – Understanding Progressive Era Social Tensions

This worksheet is part of our Progressive Era and Reform Movements Worksheets collection.