Today in class we started our chapter nine blog discussions. We only got through two.. because Mr. Bruns had to leave for a basketball game. After he left, Ms. Wellman came in and will now be our substitute teacher and allow us to have a study hall. Below I listed all of the questions and the answers to the two we covered. We only completed Worker's Safety and over half of Prohibition.1.What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?Workman’s compensation for when a person gets hurt on the job, unemployment, shorter work days, child labor laws, electricity, OSHA-investigates businesses confirming safe environment for workers, established 1970.2.What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?3.What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition? Prohibition-banning sale conception of alcohol as a commercial and at bar or tavern. Only allowed at churches, hospitals, and making and consuming in own resident. Big part of culture. Cheap, readily available. Made from corn. Many towns and counties would put prohibition laws for selling. WCTU- Woman’s Christian Temperate’s Union (fought for woman’s abuse rights, men come home drunk and beat wives) the progressives (woman) were the big pushers on outlawing alcohol. Lead to crimes, abuse, cheating, and many more unmoral acts because of alcohol.4.What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?5.What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?6.What is women’s suffrage? What approaches did women use to gain the right to vote?7.What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?8.What is segregation? What did progressives do to help African Americans?9.What did the progressives do to make food and drugs safer for the people of the United States?10.What did progressives (TR) do to help conserve land and resources in our country?11.What did progressives do to regulate businesses in the United States?12.What were the progressive’s philosophy on tariffs? Describe the Federal Reserve System.13.Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.14.What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?15.What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?16.What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?17.Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.18.What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
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