APUSH

Goals: Government should1)Assure more democracy in government

2)Be more accountable to its citizens

3)Reduce the power of wealthy 4)Become more efficient and less corrupt

1) Improving the working conditions of factory laborers

2) Fighting corruption in municipal governments

3) Protecting the interests of consumers

4) Making government more directly responsible to the electorate

Defined as writers who played a key role in alerting the public to wrongdoing in politics and business

The Jungle – meatpacking industry in Chicago by Upton Sinclair

The Octopus – railroads and farmers (Frank Norris)

The Shame of the Cities – corrupt urban charities by Lincoln Steffens

The Bitter Cry of the Children – use of child labor (John Spargo)

Famous Author - journalist and photographer who publicized the wretched conditions in which many immigrants lived

How the Other Half Lives

Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism because they believed that conflict and competition did not necessarily improve society

Break from previous era of big business

most influential advocate of full political, economic, and social equality for Black Americans

NAACP

Civil War / Reconstruction Review Test (write answers on own paper)

Can I write on the test? NO!!!Does this count against my grade? NO!!!!Then why are we doing it? Review for midterm

How does this relate to the learning goal? We are reviewing the actions of the US government during and after the Civil War

Reading and Analyzing a DBQ on the Atomic Bomb used during World War 2

Can I write on this packet? YesDo I have to write an actual essay? No, this is our way of finishing the unit on World War 2

How does this relate to the learning goal? We are discussing how the President decided to end World War 2 using a very deadly weapon

Points Possible = 40Pages 580-585 = 10Pages 575-579 = 10Pages 567-572 = 10560-566 = 10

1) Mowry-Hofstadter Thesis- idea that progressives were suffering from psychological (not economic) discontent

2) Progressive reform was about reforming big business

3) Progressivism was a result of dislocations in American life; rapid changes occurred in the economy but no corresponding changes in social and political institutions. Economic ($) Power moved to big business, but social/political life remained centered in local communities resulted in the panic and disorder of the 1890s

Date: January 13, 2012Learning Goal: To explain “how women impacted the Progressive Era”

Essential Question: Would an Equal Rights Amendment be Fair to Women?

**What to think about during class**Exit Slip: List 3 ways women impacted the Progressive Era (due at end of class)

Muckrakers- Goals of Progressivism

Please hold up a card (0-4) for how well you understand the Learning Goal:

“How Women Impacted the Progressive Era”

1) Working Class& Immigrants- seeking workmen’s compensation, wage and hour laws

2) Common people against special interests

3) Decline of political parties and rise of interest groups working for specific economic interests

4) Impact of Women- protecting their domestic role in an ever-increasing industrial world (temperance, divorce, prostitution, labor laws)

Jane Addams & Hull House Idea that poverty and criminality were products of an unhealthy environment (opposite of social Darwinism)

Settlement houses provided help to immigrant families (language, customs, etc of America)

Idea of middle class people “settling” in the inner city and bringing civilization to the frontier

Boston Marriages- women lived secretly together, often romantic, as women moved into non-traditional roles

NAWSA- National American Woman Suffrage Association; argued giving women voting rights would strengthen temperance movement Membership grew from 13,000 (1893) to 2 million (1917)

1920Early successes in western states

Guaranteed political rights to women throughout the nation

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Short VideoA constitutional amendment that would provide clear, legal protection for their rights and would prohibit all discrimination on the basis of sex

Failed every time up for voteWhy? Made women essentially like men (eligible for draft/war)

1) Was the Equal Rights Amendment a good or bad idea?

With your neighbors, compile a list of pros and cons of a proposed Equal Rights Amendment