Monday: 9-1
aimed to help the poor, YMCA-the young men's christian association.
-Define the Progressive Era, why it started and it goals.- opened library, sponsored things, built swimming pools
4 goals of progressive
- moral improvement
- creating economical reform
- fostering efficiency
- progressive era
banging alcohol- moral improvement
reforming local government:
- natural government
- split of parts of cities
- eventually rebuilt
- city councils were created
government was all different and corrupt
reform mayors:
- progressive reform was changing organization
reform at the state level- reform government:
- robert m. la follette, big business
Protecting working children:
- unskilled tasks
- low wadges
- immigrants, rural migrants sent their kids to work
efforts to limit working hours:
- women's work hours limited to 10 hour days
Reforming elections:
Direct elections of senators:
- the legislature had chosen its own united states senators
- progressives pushed for the popular
Brun's discussion for 9-1:
4 goals of progressive
- protecting social welfare
- promoting moral improvement
- creating economic reform
- fostering efficiency
protecting social welfare:
- set up settlement houses for poor
- opened libraries
- sponsored education classes
- set up soup kitchens
- slum brigades- teach immigrants English and other skills
- some organizations that helped- YMCA
promoting moral improvement:
- prohibition
- Carrie nation
- why ban alcohol
- women's suffrage
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?
-What did the 17th Amendment do?
Wednesday:
creating economic reform:
- there was a major unbalance in income and how people lived
- many turned to socialism
- regulations of railroad
- child labor laws
- letting people work but still have a life
- Sherman act
muckrakers- they are investigator journalists
Fostering efficiency:
- scientist management to increase efficiency was used in factories
- Frederick Taylor- time management studies
- assembly line
- henry ford paid workers $5(which was a lot) a day
Comments
Good on this blog but you didn't do the previous two weeks.