americassolutions

**America's Solutions during the Progressive Era** For the last assignment, you read all about America's problems during the Gilded Age, and then you decided how to best fix those problems. Today, you will read stories from the Progressive Era. Progressive means 'making progress'. During the Progressive Era, people tried to make progress by fixing America's problems and making America a better place for everyone. Read each of the stories and complete your research chart by comparing your group's solutions to America's problems with the real-life solutions to America's problems.

1. Troy Banks

2. Jane Addams

3. George Hamilton

4. Theodore Roosevelt