On this day we started with Chapter 8 Section 4, then we started Chapter 9. Here are the key questions.Ch. 8.4:-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Amusement parks, including the roller coaster and the ferris wheel. Bicycling, which was all male at first. Theater. Sports including tennis. Shopping in stores, advertising, and catalogs were ways for Americans to become consumers. Even the US Post Office started dong mail-order business. Snack foods and soda pop came out in the early 1900's.Ch. 9.1-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals). Protect the social welfare, (soften the harshness of conditions, get chruches to help the poor, open libraries and swimming pools, and defeat child labor laws)promote moral improvement, (fixing the lives of the poor by prohibition and following the "do everything" slogan) create economic reform, (the panic of 1893 caused Americans to question capitalism, and workers embraced socialism as a result. Big businesses were given high power, as well as muckrakers, journalists who wrote about the corruptness of businesses) and foster efficiency (progressive leaders counted on experts and scientific principals to make society better, including limited womens hours to ten hours a day, brought down the prices of goods, increased efficiency of the assembly lines, and bringing in mass production). They aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in America.-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition? The banning of alcoholic beverages. It was harming the morality of America. Women were very much for the prohibition. Known as the Great Experiment. Forbidden to manufacture, transport, import, export, and sell alcohol. Keep people from being drunk.-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country. Opening libraries, sponsered classes, swimming pools, and handball courts were due to the YMCA. The Salvation Army is another. They assisted in plagues, wars, illnesses, and disasters. Philanthropists (rich who gave to poor).-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it? Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition. It was repealed in 1933. They thought it would eliminate corruption, but instead drinking rates went up due to renegade gangsters of sorts.-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States? It is an organized political movement in the U.S. It started in Europe.-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country? A journalist who wrote about the corruption of government.-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era? Enviormentalism, including clean air, water, cities and land. Social justice, where a society is equal.-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business? The populist movement (farmers that talked about crop failure, price inconvenience, poor marketing, and bad credit.) Railraods were added. Protection of private property.-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer? They got child labor laws and more regulations.-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor? The Keating-Owen Act in 1916 prohibited transportation of goods made by children. In 1918, the superme court prohibited child labor, and set the maximum hours for factory workers and other laborors.-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work? No children could work and the limit was nine hours per day.-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers? All workers involved in the railroads recieved a ten percent raise.-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic? No answer.-What did the 17th Amendment do? Allows states to vote for their own senators.
Comments