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
- Was when people tried to fix economic opportunities and to correct injustices in life
- -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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