9.20.13

[4Zach]

not testin'

nat. pow/mia day

WE AIN'T TESTIN' TODAY
WOW

PROGRESSIVE REFORM ERA

• Similar to the populists.
  • The populists died out in the late 1800s.
• 1890-1920
• Protecting social welfare.
  • Help the people who need help.
• Promoting moral improvement.
  • Women really pushed for this.
  • Prohibition.
    • Banning of alcohol.
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• Creating economic reform.
  • Capitalism.
    • People own the businesses, not the govt.
    • People who work hard get paid more.
  • Socialism.
    • Similar to Communism.
      • Karl Marx
    • SCHOOLS ARE SOCIALIST
      • Run by Govt.
    • Economic reform is trying to change the economy.
    • FDR started us to being a mixed economy.
• Fostering efficiency.
  • Henry Ford.
    • He decided to pay workers $5 a day, which was a lot back then.
      • That made workers actually want the job.

Assigned Blog #1 - 

• Temperance Movement - 18th Amendment
• Muckrakers - Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens
• Doing a podcast with Team CE(R?)Z.
  • Colin
    • Meat Inspection Act, antiquities act.
  • Evan
    • Newlands reclamation act.
  • Rob?
    • Payne-Aldrich Tariff
    • Ballinger/Pinchot Land Dispute
  • Zach (that's me)
    • Temperance Movement - 18th Amendment
    • Muckrakers - Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens