Ch. 9.1
-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).'
4 goals protecting social welfare, protecting moral improvement, creating economic reform, fastening efficiency
-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. YMCA, Salvation army, they
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it? Prohibition, no more alcohol
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country? They were the ones that exposed the filth of society
-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? Lowered them from 10 to 8
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic? They made ballots, they started voting on things ore
-What did the 17th Amendment do?
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
Comments