USHAP
Unit 7, Week 2
*The Week of the Venn Diagram 
Monday 2/4
• Agenda
• Finish problem solving activity
• Discuss social controls
• New Immigrants
• Reminders
• Test Review, Friday at lunch 2/8
• Test Monday 2/11
Problem-Solving Activity
• For each problem on the next few slides, say which
choice you think is best and then explain why.
Scenario #1
The majority of workers live in tenement houses that are
falling apart and overcrowded. Because they are made
mostly of wood and built right next to each other without any
fire escapes, they would be very dangerous for people if a
fire started. Lack of adequate plumbing has led to there
being a lot of sewage on the streets.
A.These buildings provide housing for people who have no where
else to live. If the housing were nicer then the new immigrants
couldn’t afford it and they would be homeless.
B.A law should be passed that requires the city to collect trash weekly
and also to require buildings to have a fire escape. Also, money
should be spent on roads and trolleys so it is easy to work in the
city but live somewhere else. This will keep the city from getting
overcrowded.
C.Workers should be given a larger share of the profits made by the
companies where they work. No business owner should be able to
make more than 20 times as much money as his lowest paid
employee.
Scenario #2
Democracy is no longer working well in local governments
because of the political machines. Elected officials are taking
bribes from businesses to make laws that favor those businesses.
Also, people can only be hired for government positions like mail
carrier or teacher if they pay a bribe. Lastly, elected officials are
using tax money to pay ridiculously high prices for building and
contract work that is all being done by their friends. Sometimes
this leads to a kick-back where their friends let them keep some of
the money “paid” for the job.
A. Elect people into office who promise not to be corrupt and who
will try and change the laws that allow corruption.
B. Change how governments are run so that instead of electing a
mayor, the governor appoints 5 people to run the city together.
The appointment people are experts in their field – an
engineer, a public safety office, a financial advisor, etc.
C. Get rid of local government and instead have all meetings
decided by the entire town in local town hall meetings.
Scenario #3
State and federal governments allow monopolies to control an entire
industry. Once a monopoly exists in an industry they can charge
consumers high prices, pay workers low wages and pollute the
environment.
A.Monopolies mass produce products wanted and used by society. By
becoming so large they are able to offer more products to more people
and employ more workers. Also, they have generated wealth and power
that has made the United States into a world power.
B.State governments should make laws that regulate businesses. These
laws could include requirements for working conditions, limits on the
pollution that a business can generate and making monopolies illegal.
C.The state should take control of essential businesses, like railroads,
electricity, and oil because these items are all necessary for people to
eat, live in warm houses and transport themselves and goods. Since no
one would choose to live without electricity it defies the rules of supply
and demand, meaning an electric company that was a monopoly could
charge whatever they wanted and people would still pay. For this
reason, it should be run by the government and equally distributed to all
people for a reasonable price.
Scenario #4
80% of African-Americans live in the South in 1900 as tenant
farmers under Jim Crow laws that segregate their daily life,
voting restrictions that deprive them of their right to vote and
the Ku Klux Klan that terrorize anyone who tries to fight for a
better life.
A. This problem is not a Federal issue, but a state and local
issue.
• If you think the people themselves should fix it, describe what the people can do
themselves without relying on the government.
B. This is the Federal Government’s responsibility
• If you think government should fix it, what steps can the government take to
enforce the laws and amendments that have been passed?
C. This problem is too big for our political system, change the
system!
• If you think we need to change the system, what other political systems would
work to address the problems of segregation and racism in American society?
Options
Laissez-Faire, Conservative, Captain of Industry, Big
Business
B. Progressive, Liberal, Big Government
C. Radical, Socialist
A.
POV: Big Government vs. Big Business
Approach to
business
Big Government
Big Business
Businesses will better serve
the consumer if they follow
regulations and requirements
set by the government.
Businesses can create jobs
for workers and goods for
consumers best when they
don’t have to follow lots of
government rules. (Laissezfaire policies)
What makes
Equality: The government
the US great? protecting everyone’s public
welfare
Liberty: The freedom to
pursue your dreams and be
free from government control
What they
were called in
1900
Captains of Industry
Progressives
What they are Democrats
called today
Republicans
Match the problem caused by political machines with the
Progressives’ solutions.
Problems caused by Political Machines
Progressive reforms for Government
A. Political parties kept average people from
choosing the candidate.
B. Immigrants voted for political bosses in
return for the favors that the boss had done
for them.
C. Government officials were paid off to
ignore illegal activities like gambling or
drinking.
D. Corporations bribed political parties to get
their favorite candidate into office.
E. Politicians gave jobs to their friends and
government contracts to their friends’
businesses without allowing other companies
to compete for the contract.
F. Voter fraud included people voting more
than once in different voting stations.
1.Secret ballots and private voting booths
2.Voters select their candidates in a
primary rather than have political
parties select the candidates.
3.Recalls allow voters to remove a corrupt
or disliked elected official if enough
people sign a petition to create a
special election.
4.Initiatives allow people to propose their
own laws to be voted on by people
on the election day ballot.
5.Pendleton Act sets up guidelines for
hiring government workers (“civil
servants”) so that jobs would be
given based on merit.
Problems caused by Political
Machines
Progressive reforms for Government
A. Political parties kept average people
from choosing the candidate.
B. Immigrants voted for political bosses in
return for the favors that the boss had
done for them.
C. Government officials were paid off to
ignore illegal activities like gambling or
drinking.
D. Corporations bribed political parties to
get their favorite candidate into office.
E. Politicians gave jobs to their friends and
government contracts to their friends’
businesses without allowing other
companies to compete for the contract.
F. Voter fraud included people voting more
than once in different voting stations.
1.Secret ballots and private voting booths – A
and/or F
2.Voters select their candidates in a primary
rather than have political parties select
the candidates. – A and/or D
3.Recalls allow voters to remove a corrupt or
disliked elected official if enough people
sign a petition to create a special
election. A, B, C, D, E and/or F
4.Initiatives allow people to propose their own
laws to be voted on by people on the
election day ballot. D and/or E
5.Pendleton Act sets up guidelines for hiring
government workers (“civil servants”) so
that jobs would be given based on merit.
B, C and/or E
Social Control and Its Limits
• Why did the prohibitionists focus on alcohol as the
preeminent social evil?
• Identify the ways the Progressives addressed the ideals
of social justice.
• Leisure time?
• Education?
U.S. Immigration: 1820-1995
New Immigrants: pgs 736-741
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Push Factors
Pull Factors
Transportation
Immigration Station
Experience
• Life in America
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Living Conditions
Employment
Company Towns?
Availability of union
representation?
• Immigrant Aide
• Settlement House
Block Day 2/5 & 2/6
• Agenda
• Fluency Fact Review Quiz
• Finish immigrant Venn diagram
• Women
• National Progressivism
• Progressive Presidents
• (if time) look over the last test
• Reminders
• Test Review, Friday at lunch 2/8
• Test Monday 2/11
Review Quiz Synthesizer Frames
• Show Commonality:
• ___________ , _____________ , and _____________ all demonstrate
____________ in the ____________ period.
• Show Contrast:
• Although ______________ in the case of ____________, for the most part
______________ as seen in the ______________ and the
_____________.
• Show Analysis:
• ______________, ________________, and ______________ all resulted
from _______________ in the ____________________ period.
Women’s Movement
• Why was the birth control movement so important to
female Progressives?
• What is “voluntary motherhood?”
POV Activity: Confronting Racism in the
Progressive Era
• How should issues of race
and racism be addressed in
American society?
• How did WEB DuBois and
Booker T Washington feel
about racism and
accommodation?
• Which perspective do you
agree most with and why?
Progressive Presidents: Domestic Policy
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Political reforms
Economic reforms
Social reforms
Pgs 748-754
Roosevelt
Wilson
Taft
Political
Reforms
Teddy Roosevelt
1901-1908
William Taft
1908-1912
Woodrow Wilson
1912-1921
Similarities
Square Deal- big
business reform
Wanted to
limit the
power of big
corporations
Lawsuits
against trusts
New Freedom: limited the
power of trusts
Clayton antitrust act- limit
trusts even more, protected
labor unions
19th Amendment- Suffrage
Roosevelt supported
Taft in the 1908
election.
All presidents wanted to
reform big business
Roosevelt and Wilson
sympathetic to women’s
right to vote
Economic Sherman Anti Trust Act
Reforms
Hepburn Act- The Fed.
Social
Reforms
Low tariff
platform in his
Gov. could set railroad
campaignrates (Interstate
however in
Commerce Commission) 1909 he raised
Arbitration for steel
tariffs- upset
workers
Progressives
Tariff Reform
Taft and Wilson wanted
Created the Federal Trade
to reform the banking
Commission
system
Federal Reserve (The Fed)
16th Amendment- income tax
17th Amendment- direct
election
Meat Inspection Act,
Pure Food and Drug Act
(FDA)
US Forest Service- set
aside land for national
forests
Keating-Owen Child Labor
Act
National Park Service
18th AmendmentProhibition
Added land to
national
forests,
Children’s
Bureau
National
wildlife refuge
All three did not worry
about racial tensions in
the US.
Taft and Wilson set up 8
hour workdays
THE ELECTION OF 1912
Candidates
• Roosevelt:
• Republican President
1901-1908
• Wanted Republican
nomination, failed to get
it, created Progressive
“Bull Moose” party
• Taft:
• Incumbent
• Republican President
1908-1912
• Wilson
• Democrat
And…Eugene Debs- Socialist
Modern Example:
Results
Thursday 2/7
• Agenda
• Finish Domestic Policy
• WWI
• Foreign Policy
• Reminders
• Test Review, Friday at lunch 2/8
• Test Monday 2/11
Progressive Presidents: Domestic Policy
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Political reforms
Economic reforms
Social reforms
Pgs 748-754
Roosevelt
Wilson
Taft
WWI
• The Century: America’s Time
• 1914-1919 Shell Shock
• Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxZMwv5vqAc&feature=related
• Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV9aXA9EJM&feature=related
• Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVD00bonxc&feature=related
Friday 2/8
• Agenda
• WWI
• Foreign Policy
• Reminders
• Test Review, Friday at lunch 2/8
• Test Monday 2/11
WWI
• The Century: America’s Time
• 1914-1919 Shell Shock
• Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxZMwv5vqAc&feature=related
• Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV9aXA9EJM&feature=related
• Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVD00bonxc&feature=related
Progressive Presidents: Foreign Policy
• Global Conflicts
• Form of “Diplomacy”
• Successes & Failures?