Tuesday Oct. 23, 2012.

Beginning presentations.

my topic for this weeks blog discussion is...Open Door Policy in China.

  • Four pictures. two sources.
  • longer than normal.
  • personal thought and opinions.
  • blog discussion is after presentations.

Ch. 9.1

-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).

  • protect social welfare.
  • promote moral importance.
  • create economic reform.
  • foster efficiency.

-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?

  • the banning of alcohol beverages.

-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?

 

Ch. 9.2

-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.

-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.

-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.

Ch. 9.3

-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.

-Square Deal

-Breaking up strikes

-Regulating railroads

-Regulating food and drugs

-Conservation

-Civil Rights

 

Ch.9.4

-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency

-Payne-Aldrich Tariff

-Land disputes

-Breaking up trusts

-You will have to look elsewhere for some other accomplishments as the book is limited

-Break-up of the Republican Party

-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.

 

Ch. 9.5

-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.

-Breaking up trusts

-Underwood Tariff

-16th Amendment

-Federal Reserve System

-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson

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