Tuesday Oct. 30th, 2012.

Ch. 9.1

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

  • Amied to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life.
  • 4 goals:
  1. Protecting social welfare
  2. Promoting moral improvment
  3. Creating economic reform
  4. Fostering efficiency

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

Prohibition: The banning of alcoholic beverages. Prohibitionist groups feared that alcohol was undermining american morals.

-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?

journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century became known as muckrakers.

-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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