APUSH
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Goals: Government should
1) 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
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Improving the working conditions of
factory laborers
Fighting corruption in municipal
governments
Protecting the interests of consumers
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)
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Famous Author - journalist and photographer
who publicized the wretched conditions in which
many immigrants lived
How the Other Half Lives
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Progressive reformers rejected Social
Darwinism because they believed that
conflict and competition did not necessarily
improve society
Break from previous era of big business
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most influential advocate of full political,
economic, and social equality for Black
Americans
NAACP
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Civil War / Reconstruction Review Test
(write answers on own paper)
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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
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Reading and Analyzing a DBQ on the Atomic
Bomb used during World War 2
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Can I write on this packet? Yes
Do 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
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Points Possible = 40
Pages 580-585 = 10
Pages 575-579 = 10
Pages 567-572 = 10
560-566 = 10
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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
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Date: January 13, 2012
Learning Goal: To explain “how women
impacted the Progressive Era”
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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)
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MuckrakersGoals of Progressivism
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Please hold up a card (0-4) for how well you
understand the Learning Goal:
“How Women Impacted the Progressive Era”
1) Working Class& Immigrantsseeking 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 everincreasing industrial world
(temperance, divorce, prostitution,
labor laws)
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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
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Boston Marriages- women lived secretly together,
often romantic, as women moved into nontraditional 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)
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1920
Early successes in
western states
Guaranteed political
rights to women
throughout the nation
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Please hold up a card (0-4) for how well you
understand
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Short Video
A 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 vote
Why? Made women essentially like men
(eligible for draft/war)
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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