History, Govt: Progressive Hall of Fame: Home

Database 

Charles Evans Hughes

Eugene V. Debs

Florence Kelley

Gifford Pinchot

Ida Tarbell

Jane Addams

John Dewey

Lincoln Steffens

Louis Brandeis

Margaret Sanger

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 

Robert M. La Follette 

Theodore Rooselvet

William Howard Taft

William Jennings Bryan 

Woodrow Wilson

1. Research your historical figure.
2. Prepare an argument on why you should be a charter inductee of the Progressive Hall of Fame.
3. Present your argument.
4. Try to tear holes in other candidates’ arguments as they present their cases.
5. Justify your vote for three people.

• That justification must include your criteria by which you judge the inductees. 
• Those criteria must be linked with you definition of progressivism. 
• In a separate paragraph, nominate the most appropriate city in which to build the Progressive Hall of Fame.  

In the articles that come up the person's name will be highlighted. 

America Enters the World: A People's History of the Progressive Era and World War I by Page Smith (Vol. 7) 

This book includes information on ALL of the names EXCEPT: Edward Ross and Hazen Pingree