Mon 2/6
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Things You Need Out
1. Pen or Pencil
2. Notes Section 9
Odds and Ends
•Fri 2/10: Reading Quiz 5
•Tue 2/14: Unit 1 Test
•Fri 2/17: Reading Quiz 6
•Fri 2/17: Next Extra Credit
Opportunity
Unit 1 Section 10: Reforming Society
•Subunit Resources:
• These notes, reading packet/quiz week 4
•Guiding Questions/Performance Objectives:
•What are the different groups that tried to reform
America?
•How were they different? Alike?
•What effects did they have?
\Where are we?
• 1880-1914
Think: Issues
• Think of 3 issues Americans would have during this time
period.
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Pair: Issues
• Discuss your list with 1-3 neighbors.
• Determine the two you think are most significant. Write
and circle these in the margin under this slide
End
Share: Issues
• Share out your 2. Note any additional that were cited as
important as you may see them again.
Group 1: Labor Unions
• Labor Unions: organized group
of workers looking to protect
their rights and interests
through
• Collective bargaining:
• Strikes:
• Boycotts:
• Raising Public Awareness to
abuses
•Many of these are more
likely to be effective today…
Why?
Limitations of Organized Labor
• Haymarket Riot: an 1886 strike in Chicago where
dynamite was thrown at police (no one knows who
threw it).
• Effects: Xenophobia, why?
•Homestead Mill Strike: 1892 strike against
Carnegie Steel where Pinkerton Guards clashed
with strikers, the militia was called in, and an
attempt was made by an anarchist on Henry Frick,
one of Carnegie’s subordinates
• What was the effect of this?
Tue 2/7
Here’s What’s Up…
Things You Need Out
1. Pen or Pencil
2. Notes Section 10
Odds and Ends
•Fri 2/10: Reading Quiz 5
•Tue 2/14: Unit 1 Test
•Fri 2/17: Reading Quiz 6
•Fri 2/17: Next Extra Credit
Opportunity
IWW Worth Noting
• Who were the Wobblies?
• What are some reasons the IWW
was more successful than some
other labor unions?
• Why would many Americans have
been critical of the IWW?
• How was the Lawrence Textile Strike
of 1912 different from the
Haymarket Riot and the Homestead
Mill Strikes?
Group 2: Populists
• Populists (historical): a group of initially rural
farmers, but eventually also city workers who
pushed for economic reforms in the 1890s.
• Inflation: pushed for gold and silver standard
• Socialism: advocated for state control of
power, telephone and transportation
industries.
• Old time values: this movement was more
conservative
• Effects: granges, concerns or pushes for other
reforms.
• How would they have viewed cities?
• Death of movement:
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2.
Merged with Democratic Party
Focus on Jim Crow distracted everyone
Group 3: Muckrakers
• Muckrakers: journalists and reform
advocates who drew attention to issues
with urban living in order to push for
political reforms
• How was Ida Tarbell an example?
• How was Jacob Riis an example?
• How was Mother Jones an example?
•Effects: raised awareness, encouraged
Populist Movement and Progressive
Movement, turned public opinion
more in favor with Unions and less
with trusts/monopolies
Group 4: Progressives
• Progressives: Middle and upper
middle class urbanites who
rejected Social Darwinism and
pushed for political and social
reforms.
• Sanitation, Child Labor, Safety
Regulations, Temperance, Tenement
Housing, Zoning, Women’s suffrage,
food quality regulation, Anti-corruption.
• If it looked ugly in print, Progressives
didn’t like it.
• What would be some reforms
Progressives would be against?
Group 5: Big Business
• Assembly Line: a conveyor production
system that allows for complex machines
with multiple assemblies (more than 1
system moves) to be mass produced.
• Henry Ford, who invented the Model T car
in 1908 along with the assembly line
realized he lacked a sufficient market for
his extreme output.
• To counter this, he offered his workers
higher wages, vacation and Saturdays
(with Sundays) off.
• Why?
Wed 2/8
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1. Pen or Pencil
Odds and Ends
•Fri 2/10: Reading Quiz 5
•Tue 2/14: Unit 1 Test
•Fri 2/17: Reading Quiz 6
•Fri 2/17: Next Extra Credit
Opportunity
Unit 1 Section 11: Gilded Age/Early 1900s Tech
•Subunit Resources:
• These notes, reading packet/quiz week 4
•Guiding Questions/Performance Objectives:
•What were some inventions from this time
period?
•What effect did these have on society,
particularly city life, culture, and communication?
Where are we?
• 1855-1908
Unit 1 Section 11: Gilded Age/Early 1900s Tech
• Bessemer Process:
• Effects
• Suspension Bridge
• Skyscraper
• Streetcar/Automobile
• Kinetoscope/Camera Reel
• Pro Baseball
• Telephone
• Phonograph
• Lightbulb
• Wright Brothers Flight
• Mass Production/Assembly
Line
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
1875
1880
1885
1890
1895
1900
1905
1910
1915
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
1875
1880
1885
1890
1895
1900
1905
1910
1915
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1855 Bessemer Process: Allows for the mass production
of steel
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1866 John Roebling improves suspension bridges
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1869 Pro Baseball
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1876 Telephone
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1877 Phonograph (record player)
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1878 Lightbulb
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1885 Skyscraper
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1885 Coke
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1888 Streetcar
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1888 Automobile
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1888 Kinetoscope
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1898 Rotating Camera Reel
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1903 Wright Brothers Flight
Major Invention Affecting Gilded Age & Early 1900s
• 1908: Mass Production/The Assembly Line
Thu 2/9
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Odds and Ends
•Fri 2/10: Reading Quiz 5
1. Pen or Pencil
2. Notes, sections 2-5 •Tue 2/14: Unit 1 Test
3. Yesterday’s timeline •Fri 2/17: Reading Quiz 6
•Fri 2/17: Next Extra Credit
Opportunity
Westward Expansion/Civil Rights Key dates
• Chisholm Trail beginning 1866
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Homestead Act 1862
McCormick Plow: Factory Production beginning 1856
Carlisle School founded 1879
Battle of Little Bighorn 1876
Wounded Knee 1890
Transition from “Old” to “New” immigration 1865
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Susan B. Anthony imprisoned 1872
Arizona passes first miscegenation law 1865 (what does this say about Jim Crow?)
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
Booker T. Washington defines accomodationism for whites 1895
DuBois founds NAACP 1909
Garvey Creates the UNIA (a Pan-African support group) 1914
Create A Populist
Create A Muckraker
Create A Progressive
Name______________________
Lives_________________________
Occupation____________________
Name______________________
Lives_________________________
Occupation____________________
2 Reforms your populist supports
and why:
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2 Reforms your muckraker supports
and why:
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2 Reforms your Progressive
supports and why (different than
muckraker):
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Fri 2/10
Here’s What’s Up…
Things You Need Out
1. Pen or Pencil
2. Reading Packet
Cover
Odds and Ends
•Mon: Review Session 3:30
•Tue 2/14: Unit 1 Test
•Tue 2/14: Study Guide
Due
•Fri 2/17: Reading Quiz 6
•Fri 2/17: Next Extra Credit
Opportunity
Unit 1 Section 12: Progressive Era Reforms
•Subunit Resources:
• These notes, reading packet/quiz weeks 4 & 5, Study Guide
•Guiding Questions/Performance Objectives:
•What are some Progressive Reforms?
•How is Teddy Roosevelt “Progressive?”
•Why does Progressivism matter today?
•Why did Progressivism end?
Where are we?
• 1900-1919
The Seeds of Reform
• Sherman Antitrust Act: 1890 law that allowed the
President to prosecute trusts & monopolies that were
hindering competition.
• Why wasn’t it used right away?
Continuing Issues
• Triangle Factory Fire: a
1911 incident that killed
many workers in a fire
• 1 elevator, small
• What would Progressives
want?
The Theodore Roosevelt Equation
Roosevelt History
• Where does Roosevelt get his concern for others?
• How did Roosevelt start making his way into politics?
• Why did he resign as Secretary of the Navy
• How can Roosevelt be seen as a Progressive?
Offices:
• Progressive Assemblyman in NYC
• Assistant Secretary of the Navy: 1897-1898
• Governor of NY
• Vice President: March-Sept 1901
• President 1901-1909
• Presidential Candidate 1912
Progressive Reforms
• Use of Sherman Antitrust Act: Roosevelt/William Howard Taft
• Sanitation/Housing/Beautification Reforms
• Building Codes/Zoning Laws
• Anti Prostitution Laws
• Factory Safety Laws
• Public School laws
• Progressive Amendments
• 17th Amendment:
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment:
Why it Ended?
• 1919 was a hard year and Americans were exhausted
• What are three reasons?
• Societal ADD: People wanted to enjoy the material
prosperity America began reaping
• Consumer Mass Culture: Use of advertising to promote the
large-scale consumption of consumer goods