Bell Ringer 8-25-14
•What are the two
main political
parties in the
United States?
Answer
•Democrats and Republicans
Third Party Systems
What is a Third Party?
•Third parties often focus on issues the main
parties (democrats & republicans) ignore.
•Third-party candidates can split the major
party with which they are most similar,
leading to the other major party's victory.
Populist Party
• Populist Party –
established in 1890s;
comprised of poor
farmers from the south;
generally opposed to
banks, railroads, and
upper class;
Populist Party
• William Jennings Bryan was the
most popular populist
candidate.
Progressive Party
• Progressive Party –
formed in 1912 as a
result of a split in the
Republican Party
• Also known as the “Bull
Moose Party”
Progressive Party
• Theodore Roosevelt
most popular candidate
Closing Task
• Examine the populist and progressive parties.
• You will complete the following:
• You will create a poster, your poster will signify the impact of
third parties in the US.
• Make sure to include facts about the populist party and the
progressive party.
• Use your notes and page 107-111 pg the Jarrett Book.
• Your poster must be in color.
• IT IS DUE AT THE END OF CLASS.
How did the Third Party
system impact the US?
Explain.
Populist party:
What was it?
Why were they significant?
Bell Ringer 8-26-14
•After analyzing the
title of the book,
what do you think is
the definition of a
Muckraker?
Muckrakers
•Muckrakers –are authors
that published truthful
reports involving social
issues
Group Assignment
• Match the correct reformer to its description.
You have 7 minutes to complete this task as a group.
• Once complete you will be responsible for the following:
• Each group member will be assigned a reformer.
• You will answer the following questions about your assigned reformer:
1.
2.
3.
Describe the occupation of this reformer
What impact did this reformer have on American society?
Is the reformer a Muckraker? Explain why/why not.
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Susan B. Anthony (123)
Ida B. Wells (114)
Upton Sinclair (113)
WEB Dubois (114)
You have 7 minutes to complete this task individually.
Round Robin
• You are now responsible for sharing your reformer with your group
members:
• You will be given 4 minutes to share your reformer with your group members
• You will be given 7 minutes to write down the information shared by your
group members.
Make sure the material on your
handout is correct!
If you need to add information, now
is the time!
Upton Sinclair
•Upton Sinclair – an author wrote “The
Jungle” which exposed the conditions in
the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a
public uproar and leading to the passage of
the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat
Inspection Act
Upton Sinclair
Pure Food and Drug Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act – was passed for
preventing the manufacture, sale, or
transportation of adulterated ,misbranded,
poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs,
medicines, and liquors, as well as for regulating
traffic
• The government passed this law in response to
Upton Sinclair’s work The Jungle
Susan B. Anthony
•Susan B. Anthony –
American reformer
and leader of the
women’s suffrage
(voting) movement
Ida B. Wells
•Ida B. Wells – American
reformer and leader in
the anti-lynching
(hanging) crusade
W.E.B. DuBois
• W.E.B. DuBois – helped found the
NAACP (National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People).
• He encouraged a liberal arts
education for African American
civil rights leaders.
Question:
The publication of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair in 1906 was
instrumental in getting the members of congress toA.
B.
C.
D.
Enact stronger anti-trust laws
Support conservation of public land
Establish a system of meat inspection
Legalize strikes by labor unions
Closing Task
• I will create a newspaper article describing and
identifying the following reformers:
• Reformers:
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Susan B. Anthony (371, 422)
Ida B. Wells (371, 383)
Upton Sinclair (430, 443)
WEB Dubois (384, 421, 442, 501)
• You will answer the following questions in your
article:
1. Who is this person? (what DID THEY DO FOR A LIVING?)
2. Evaluate THE impact they made on American society.
Bell Ringer 8-27-14
•What impact did this
book make on United
States History?
Answer
•It made people push the
government to pass the Pure Food
and Drug Act.
Video links
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Ida Wells
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/1C8BA5A7-CEEA-4E2B-9CB7-95CD252C59BF
Susan B. Anthony
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/964497B6-BD42-4F95-B625-46F34DB725C4
Upton Sinclair
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/D3257257-307E-4576-AC2D-7C04F606F870
W.E.B DuBois
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/FFC1865C-B612-491E-BF02-178AAAE1F67E
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Closing Task
• Pick two U.S. History topics and create an acrostic
poem.
• Topics: Freedom, The West, Gilded Age , Progressive Era
• MUST BE IN COLOR
DO NOT USE YOUR NOTEBOOKS OR BOOKS!
Bell Ringer 8-28-14
•What impact has technology
made on the U.S.?
Important Bell Ringer!!
Answer
•Impact on the nature of work
• Innovations in technology contributed to longer
workdays and higher levels of production (assembly line
manufacturing).
• Light bulbs enabled factories to remain open at night.
•Impact on business
• Patents gave individuals and companies exclusive rights
over inventions.
• Allowed businesses to reduce cost, become more
flexible, and meet consumer demands.
• Transportation
• Automobiles increase the ability to travel distances and created new
jobs
• Mass transportation such as cable cars and subway systems facilitate
access to jobs, retail, and recreation
• Raised standard of living allowed people to have more housing and
employment choices
• Electric light
• Longer work day
• Improved quality of life by bringing light into dark homes and
tenement buildings
• Communication
• Access to information – telephone, telegraph, computers, radios,
televisions, Internet, cellular, and satellite technology
Understanding Text
• Individually read/skim the handout on Jane Addams and Francis
Willard.
• 5 Minutes
Group Work
• As a group write a sentence about each individual.
• Pick a speaker for your group
• You will present your findings to the class.
Terms for you to Understand:
• Social: of or relating to society or its organization
• Political: of or relating to the government or the public affairs of a
country
• Economics: financial considerations; economically significant aspects
• the social science concerned with the production and consumption of goods
and services and the analysis of the commercial activities of a society.
Jane Addams
• Jane Addams – co-founder of Hull
House which helped new immigrant
women with job skills, educational,
and artistic programs to become
successful and productive citizens
• Her goal was to provide a center for a
higher civic and social life; to institute
and maintain educational and
philanthropic enterprises and to
investigate and improve the
conditions in the industrial districts of
Chicago.
Frances Willard
• Frances Willard promoted the cause
of women and reform as a pioneer
educator and especially as the most
prominent leader of the nineteenth
century movement to end alcohol
abuse. (Prohibition)
• Frances Willard – suffragette and
member of the WCTU (Women’s
Christian Temperance Union)
Closing Task 8-28-14
• You are to create a fake facebook profile for Jane Addams and
Frances Willard
• The profile must include the following:
• 1.) A profile picture
• 2.) 2 status updates on something that the individual might have
said
• 4. Create an about me section and answer the following
questions:
• What was their political contribution to America during the
Progressive Era?
• What was their social contribution to America during the
Progressive Era?
• What was their economic contribution to America during
the Progressive Era?
14b
• Identify
• ROLES OF GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AND PRIVATE CITIZENS IN
MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT
• Including, but not limited to:
• John Muir helped persuade Theodore Roosevelt to set aside 148
million acres of forest reserves and over 50 wildlife sanctuaries and
several national parks. The National Park Service is a U.S. federal
agency that manages all national monuments and parks.
23c
• Explain
• HOW PARTICIPATION IN THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY REFLECTS
NATIONAL ETHOS, PATRIOTISM, AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AS WELL
AS OUR PROGRESS TO BUILD A "MORE PERFECT UNION."
• Including, but not limited to:
• Right to vote, participation in various levels of politics, recall,
referendum
• Right to assemble
• Writing Congressional representatives