Monday- talked about the Supreme court case on Wednesday,
9-1
-Define the Progressive Era, why it started and it goals.
-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?
4 GOALS OF PROGRESSIVES
- welfare- aimed to help the poor, opened library, and build activity for them
economic reform-they sought to change individual behavior
muck rake-they exposed the problems in our country
reforming local government-natural disaster, splits up parts of the city's, they created city councils.
reform mayors- did everything to help the city, and to benefit the poor
protecting working children-low wadges, their were lots of accidents due to fatigue
efforts to limit working hours-made a law to limit women to a 10 hour work day
reforming elections- some cases ordinary citizens won state reforms
direct election- the legislature had choose its on united states senators
Tuesday: deren, keaton, and colton finished their presentation.
Wednesday: GONE
Thursday: Mr. Bruns went over his presentation then schelby and I presented
friday:
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