Assignments for the Week of Dec. 13, 1999

Monday		TEST - Era of Reform
Tuesday		Debrief Test - Begin Imperialism and World War I

Assignments for the Week of Dec. 6, 1999

Monday		Debrief Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Booker T. and W.E.B. - READ 17.3
Tuesday		The Suffragists - Intro Debates - READ 17.4
Wednesday		Progressive Debates - Preparation Day
Thursday		Progressive Debates - READ 17.5
Friday		The Election of 1912 - Review - TEST Monday - 8.1 and Chapter 17

Assignments for the Week of Nov. 29, 1999

Monday		Intro The Era of Reform - READ 8.1
Tuesday		Chicago and Reform Document Analysis - READ 17.1
Wednesday		Child Labor, Temperance and Prohibition - READ 17.2
Thursday		Corruption in City Government - Cartoonist Thomas Nast
Friday		Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Internet Activity - READ 17.3

Summary

    As the city of Chicago grew to great heights, the plight of working families fell to equally great depths.  While the rich championed capitalism and the wealth it brought to them, the poor who teamed the filthy neighborhoods of urban America were living a nightmare:  disease, crime, fire, exploitation and dependence plagued their existence.  And to make things worse, the only real agent of change, the government, was typically corrupt, filling their own pockets like feudal lords keeping the peasants in

Protecting Social Welfare

Promoting Moral Improvement

Creating Economic Reform

Fostering Efficiency

Special Features

       

Readings

The Four Goals of Progressivism

The Dogs - The Problem of Child Labor

The Jungle - Inside Chicago's stockyards

Machine Politics - Feudalism in the 19th Century

Visuals

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire	Photographs by Lewis Hine
Machine politics	Tweed and Nast
Teddy Roosevelt urged that every American is entitled to a square deal from his and her government.	Taft	Wilson

Hints

Chapter 8.1	Chapter 17.1
Impt. of religion to early reformers	Define progressive movement and it's goals (4)
Transcendentalism - connect to reform	Characteristics of the reform politician (like LaFollette)
Roots of reform begin with education	Importance of Muller v. Oregon
Chapter 17.2	Chapter 17.3
Industrial jobs + Education = suffrage rights?	TR - The modern, strong, powerful president - Why?   How?
Three-part strategy of change	How does the "square deal" define TR's beliefs?
Begins in the West and progresses eastward	The trustbuster takes on the railroads, meat, drugs , conservation
Chapter 17.4	Chapter 17.5
Taft's fumbles - what were they?	Is Wilson a progressive?  Why or why not? Examples...
He busts more trusts than TR, but sells public land	Suffrage battle is won...19th in 1919
TR runs in 1912 - What problems does that present?	Progressivism fades - Had the pendulum swung too far?