Ch. 9.1
*Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
-To bring change to the world
-Goal: Protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform and fostering efficieny!
*What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
-The banning of alchohol
-Prohibitiionish feared that alcohol was undermining the American morals; (crime, fights)
-Women's Christian Temperance Union; sing & pray & urge the saaloon employees not to sell
-Temperance = prohibition
-Carrie Nation : hachetation
*Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
-YMCA: opened libraries, sponsered classes, fitness places (YMCA now)
*What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?
-Illinois Factory Act: Prohipited child labor; limited women's working hours
*What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
-Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol - banned it!
*What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
-Magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of buisness and public life.
-changed elections
-reports corrupted city and state levels
-Uptinsin Claire -- meat packing factories
*What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
-After a natural disaster: city councils, five members took charge to build back up, formed a small government!
-Elected city council; laws & manager
*What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?
-broke it down into smaller parts
-assembly lines
-increased pay
-reduced hours
*What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?
-Child labor laws
-Couldn't opperate heavy equipment
-Set maximum hours
-Child lowered wages for all workers
*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?
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