Progressive Priorities - Looking at Progressive Problems
Racism: In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Jim Crow
laws which promoted segregation were legal, as long as facilities
were provided that were separate, but equal.
segregation- keeping people of
different races away from each
other.
Segregation or keeping African Americans away from white people was ruled legal.
Working Conditions: Members of the working class
were subjected to long hours, low pay, and poor working
conditions. All those injured at work were also in danger
of losing their job. Kids were often
working in dangerous and bad conditions.
People were working long hours. They were not getting paid a lot of money for their work. Kids were working in
bad places.
Women’s Rights: Even though some women had been
agitating for suffrage for over fifty years, the vote was
still limited to men. Women also received lower wages
than men and carried the burden of urban poverty.
Women were not allowed to vote. They also got paid less money than men for working.
Chapter 23- Causes of World War I
1. Use the links below to find 3 causes of World War
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/timeline/
http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/firstworldwar2.htm
2. Type the cause in the box and use
google images to find a picture to represent the cause of the war.
PICTURE
CAUSE
Britain and Germany both wanted the biggest navy in the world.
This caused tension in Europe.
Nationalism. Everyone thinks their country is the best.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
Chapter 23- Causes of WWI
1. Read pages 704-707 in the online textbook. Then type 3 words you did not know in the boxes below.
2. Use the visual dictionary link (click on the world below) to find the definitions of the words.
http://www.glencoe.com/ose/
Access Code- B7D2FDDFBD
new word #1:
militarism
Strong military spirit or policy.
new word #2:
Balance of power
new word #3:
u-boats
Submarines
3. Find a picture to represent the
word.
US Enters WWI
Read the article on this web site about the United States getting involved in World War 1.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-enters-world-war-i
On April 6, 1917, two days after the U.S. Senate votes 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the decision by a vote of 373 to 50, and the United
States formally enters the First World War.
On April 6, 1917 the United States enters the First World War. The United States is at war with Germany.
When World War I erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality for the United States, a position favored by the vast majority of Americans. Britain, however,
was one of America's closest trading partners, and tension soon arose between the United States and Germany over the latter's attempted quarantine of the British Isles.
Several U.S. ships traveling to Britain were damaged or sunk by German mines, and, in February 1915, Germany announced unrestricted warfare against all ships, neutral or
otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain. One month later, Germany announced that a German cruiser had sunk the William P. Frye, a private American vessel.
President Wilson was outraged, but the German government apologized, calling the attack an unfortunate mistake.
The United States President Woodrow Wilson was angry when Germany sank a American Ship in the ocean.
On May 7, the British-owned ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed without warning just off the coast of Ireland. Of the nearly 2,000 passengers aboard, 1,201 were killed, including 128
Americans. The German government maintained, correctly, that the Lusitania was carrying munitions, but the U.S. demanded reparations and an end to German attacks on unarmed
passenger and merchant ships. In August, Germany pledged to see to the safety of passengers before sinking unarmed vessels, but in November a U-boat sank an Italian liner without
warning, killing 272 people, including 27 Americans. With these attacks, public opinion in the United States began to turn irrevocably against Germany.
Germany kept sinking ships and killing people. The Germans said they would stop sinking ships but did not. People were
angry at Germany.
In February 1917, Germany, determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies, resumed its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in war-zone waters. Three days later, the
United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany; the same day, the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat. On February 22, Congress passed a $250
million arms-appropriations bill intended to ready the United States for war. In late March, Germany sank four more U.S. merchant ships, and on April 2, President Wilson went
before Congress to deliver his famous war message. Within four days, both houses of Congress had voted in favor of a declaration of war.
Germany kept sinking American ships and killing American people. President Wilson and Congress voted to enter the
war against Germany.
Despite measures taken to improve U.S. military preparedness in the previous year, Wilson was unable to offer the Allies much immediate help in the form of troops; indeed, the army was
only able to muster about 100,000 men at the time of American entrance into the war. To remedy this, Wilson immediately adopted a policy of conscription. By the time the war ended on
November 11, 1918, more than 2 million American soldiers had served on the battlefields of Western Europe, and some 50,000 of them had lost their lives. Still, the most important effect of
the U.S. entrance into the war was economic—by the beginning of April 1917, Britain alone was spending $75 million per week on U.S. arms and supplies, both for itself and for its allies, and
had an overdraft of $358 million. The American entry into the war saved Great Britain, and by extension the rest of the Entente, from bankruptcy.
The United States entering the war had saved Great Britain from having no money. The United States was not able to help
by sending a lot of men to fight in the war but they did send a lot of resources and money to help.
The United States also crucially reinforced the strength of the Allied naval blockade of Germany, in effect from the end of 1914 and aimed at crushing Germany economically.
American naval forces reached Britain on April 9, 1917, just three days after the declaration of war. By contrast, General John J. Pershing, the man appointed to command the
U.S. Army in Europe, did not arrive until June 14; roughly a week later, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France to begin training for combat. Though the U.S. Army's
contributions began slowly, they would eventually mark a major turning point in the war effort and help the Allies to victory.
The United States sent solider's to fight in the war. These solider's helped win the war.
Progressive Problems Questions-
1.) What is segregation?
telling people to be nice
to each other.
women not voting
keeping African Americans
away from others.
unfair by the Supreme Court.
2.) Segregation was ruled __________________
happy
bad
3.) People were working in _______________ places.
4.) They were NOT getting paid ____________aoflotmoney.
safe
small
less
more
5.) Women were not allowed to _____________.
vote money than men.
6.) Women were paid _____________
eat
legal