Week of October 26-October 30

Monday-  I was absent

Tuesday- Iowa Assessment testing

Wednesday-  I was absent

Thursday- Chapter 9 presentations. Went over the test

9-1

  • -Define the Progressive Era, why it started and it goals.
    • Was when people tried to fix economic opportunities and to correct injustices in life
      •  Protect Social Welfare
      • Promoting Moral Improvement
      • Creating Economic Reform
      • Fostering Efficiency
  • -What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
    • The national banning of sale, transportation, importation and production of alcohol, consumption of alcohol lead to lots of fighting, addiction, being irresponsible, also because a lot of people thought of it as a sin
    • Some ways people fought it were: walking into bars and destroying bottles of alcohol, they stopped buying alcohol so business production went down
  • -Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
    • Salvation Army- fed poor people with soup kitchens, helped take care of babies and kids in nurseries
    • YMCA- Opened libraries, sponsored lasses, built places like parks and swimming pools for people to use

  • -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?
    • Muckrakers were Journalists who wrote about things that they wanted people to know so it would be changed
    • They often wrote about poverty of factory workers or poor working conditions, training, and sanitation
    • One muckraker wrote about the corrupt practices in John Rockefeller's Standard Oil company
  • -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?

Friday- No school

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