Teacher's Notes

Theme:
The reform period during the l880s-90s was a reaction to some of the abuses of industrialization.

Sub-theme:
Henry George was a leading advocate of economic reform during this period.

Concepts:

• Populists
• Progress and Poverty
• Single Tax
• Social Darwinism
• Land values
• Tax structure

Performance objectives -- this lesson focuses on developing skills at:

• Analyzing a reading about the causes of poverty
• Making inferences from a cartoon
• Analyzing a bar graph on corporate land ownership

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