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=**The Progressive Era: a time period of improvement**= __**class list areas in need of progress:**__


 * country needs a better leader
 * school drop out laws
 * violence and safety of others
 * discrimination
 * job opportunities for young adults/teens

__**Aspects from 2nd IR in need of progress:**__
 * child labor
 * technology
 * discrimination
 * workers low income
 * unfair working conditions

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 * Wordle:**

analyze wordle and summerize what it does

This wordle has words like Americans, conditions, business, and so on by seeing thess words you get the idea of what the essay is about

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__Unit II Objectives__
//objectives include content, literacy, and technological// Please copy these objectives into your Unit II page - use page line breaks to separate topics or activities this unit (like I have done on this page). Objectives include content, literacy, and technological goals.

By the end of Unit II, I will be able to... 1. Define and describe the Progressive Era, its key issues, people, and events. (C) 2. Make a strong argument of my opinion about the successes and failures of the era. (C,L) 3. Identify main ideas and supporting details in a reading. (L) 4. Thoughtfully mark up a text. (L) 5. Effectively use technological programs such as Wikispaces, Google Documents & Presentations, Wordle, and Voicethread. (T) 6. Define and explain essential Key Terms: (C,L)
 * Progressivism, Progressive Era, Progressives
 * Muckraker
 * Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Thomas Nast
 * Reform
 * Legislation
 * 16th Amendment
 * Federal Reserve Act
 * 19th Amendment
 * Meat Inspection Act
 * Pure Food and Drug Act
 * Sherman Antitrust Act & Clayton Antitrust Act
 * Standard Oil Co.
 * Northern Securities Company
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Woodrow Wilson

**HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN IN SOCIETY?**
starts with a problem
 * the problem is identified
 * people start to get together to talk about addressing it
 * debate ideas for how to address the problem - brainstorm tactics
 * choose a plan of action
 * fix it and make sure it never happens again

THE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE
started in 1909 during the progressive Era [|progressive magazine]

this magazine is about members of political parties plus poetry, and humor. This magazine is aganist militarism. its all about nonviolence and freedom of speech. the progressive magazine was called La Follette's Weekly before 1929 but what they wrote about was still the same

__ Unit II - The Progressive Era – 1870-1920 - individual work __

** HOW MUCH PROGRESS WAS MADE DURING THE PROGRESSIVE ERA? **

** What were the problems? What was done about them? How much change occurred? **

You will be researching one of the topics below. For your topic you will:

· Conduct internet research and create 2-column __notes__ to acquire information about your topic from at least 3 different sites. Keep track of the sites that you use. · Find at least 2 __images__ that relate to your topic and analyze them (can be a picture or a cartoon). · Find at least 1 __primary source__ (can be a piece of writing, a speech, a newspaper article, etc) that relates to your topic and analyze it, including analysis of POV. · A list of (at least 5) key __vocabulary__ terms for your topic – listed and defined in your words. · A 2-3 paragraph __summary__ of your topic, especially focused on the results – what was changed by the progressives? What stayed the same? Also include connections to today – what progress has been made up to this time? · A __Glog__ to put it all together in an impressive presentation.

[|Political Reforms] ||  Thomas Nast  ||  Political Machine  ||
 * Political Corruption ||  [|Political Corruption]

POLITICAL CORRUPTION
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5 Most Key Vocab Terms:

 * 1) direct primary- Voters select a party's candidates for public office
 * 2) Thomas Nast- helped expose the corrupt Tammy Hall political machine
 * 3) Pendletion Civil Service Act- made it that the law required that promotions be based on merit, not on political connection
 * 4) Recall- allows Voters to remove an elected official from office
 * 5) Seventeenth Amendment- Voters elect their senators directly

__** YouTube Video **__

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primary source

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Boss Tweed thinks that to have power you need to take power. Others might disagree they might say to get power you would need to do things that make peoples life better

__PRESPECTIVE, BIAS, and POV__

Prespective: a persons point of view

Bias:to have an opinion

P.O.V: Point Of Veiw

democrats and republicans disagree against how to run the countery democrats agree with the war in iraq and republicans dont agree

What is a blog?

A blog is a site were people talk about anything and everything

[|news blog] [|THE BLOG]


 * progress made in urban housing**
 * Tentament act of 1901
 * progress made in immagrants lives**
 * setllement houses, where newly arrived immigrants could have a place to stay and eat and sleep
 * had to pass a medical exam after arriving at Ellis Island
 * progress in working conditions**
 * They got betterpay
 * safer working conditions
 * No child Labor

__ The Most Important Laws of the Progressive Era __
There were about 10 extremely signficant laws that were passed during the Progressive Era four of them are amendments to the constitution meaning that they were laws add to the original laws of the constitution.
 * **__16th Amendment__** - allows the government to take income taxes.The more money you make, the more taxes you pay. The upper class helps society through their tax money.
 * **__17th Amendment__** - citizen voters are allowed to elect their senators. this made voting more democratic. the people have more power over who represents them in the government.
 * **__18th Amendment__** - PROHBITION - outlawed the making, selling, and distributing of alcohol- passed in 1919, lasted until 1933, when the 21st amendment reapled it.
 * **__19th Amendment__** - women allowed to vote in national election. Passed in 1920.
 * __**Jim Crow laws**__ - laws that required segregation - whites and blacks used separate schools, restaurant section, bathrooms, water fountains, etc......... NOT PROGRESS - racism, discrimination, perjudice were still in need of progress!
 * __**Tenement Act of 1901**__ - law to improve living conditions in cities - must have running water, bathrooms, lights in the hallways, fire exits, etc..... jacob riis made this happen through his book.
 * Muckrakers - are people who tried to expose scandals/ wrong things they were doing to get them to stop or get the government to do something about it
 * Jacob Riis - muckraker housing conditions in tenements
 * Ida Tarbell - muckraker who exposed oil companys by writing about all the wrong things they were doing
 * Lincoln Steffens - muckraker who wrote about the corrupt governments throughout urban America
 * Upton Sinclair - muckraker who wrote about poverty, and capitalism
 * Thomas Nast - muckraker who exposed politicions by drawing pictures of the wrong things they do
 * Legislation - law makeing