Posted by 5whitneyyy on November 10, 2009 at 1:57pm
Today we continued presentations..,4. What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?They helped push through 10 hour work days.5. What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?we're going to learn about later.6. What is women’s suffrage? What approaches did women use to gain the right to vote?They created a 3 part stragedy, it was when states tried to give woman the right to vote in that state. They started focusing on a national ammendment so that every woman in the United States could vote. Today, woman can vote just the same as men can.7. What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?Prior to the progressive era poeple got paid very low amount. Most of the family spent more money then the men brought home so children would have to get jobs.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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