Unit+5

=**Part 1** = =__** Vocabulary Define: ** __= ====** Progressivism: Was partly a reaction against laissez-faire economics and its emphasis on an unregulated market. **====

====** Muckraker: Among the first people to articu- late Progressive ideas was a group of crusading jour- nalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption. **====

====** Commission Plan: A city’s government would be divided into several departments, **====

====** Direct Primary: Which all party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election. **====

====** Initiative: The power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do **====

====** Referendum: A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. **====

====** Recall: Bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one's mind, esp. so as to recount it to others; remember **====

====** Strategy: A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim **====

====** Funds: A sum of money saved or made available for a particular purpose **====

====** Advocated: A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy **====

====** Socialism: A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. **====
 * __Questions:__ **


 * 1) List two muckrakers: Ida Tarbell, Charles Edward Russell **


 * 2) List three industries or problems muckrakers exposed: the beef industry, Oil companies, and even the US Government. **


 * 3) Write two sentences explaining, in your own words, the ideas of the efficiency progressives: They wanted professionals with experience to run things. **


 * 4) Explain how the Seventeenth Amendment is an example of progressivism: It allows the public more control over the government. **


 * 5) Write a journal entry, either as President Wilson or as Alice Paul, on the day of the Washington March. Use three key terms and/or names from this lesson in your paragraph: These women want rights. I don't know if I should give them to them. The reform would gain me almost a secured vote from women in the re election, but would also lose me support from others. Whatever I choose you can be sure that some muckrakers will find something to write about.If suffrage is what they really want then I shall help them. However I will not be the one to grant it to them. There are to many risks that I will lose my popular vote. **


 * 6) list the leaders and outcomes of major social welfare progressive reforms: Child labor, health and safety, Prohibition **


 * 7) Read about the Progressives’ various attempts to reform big business. Choose one of their approaches and write a paragraph about how effective you think it was. Eliminating child labor was a must. People were not getting an education, and were dying before the age of 15 in some cases. If no one was getting an education who would be the next leaders of America? A bunch of people who had never learned to read or write? Making sure children had an education ensured the future of America. The elimination of child labor was incredibly effective. **


 * 8) How would you explain the rise of the Progressive movement? **
 * **** A bunch of people saying "I think things could be a little bit more fair". And then they decided to change things in a way that let the people have control of the their own lives, and more say in government.﻿ **

**Part 2** = = = __ Vocabulary Define: __ = = = =trigger - a small device that releases a spring or catch and so sets off a mechanism, esp. in order to fire a gun = <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">arbitration - <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">the use of an arbitrator to settle a dispute. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">issue - <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">an important topic or problem for debate or discussion =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">environmental - <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition = = = = = __** Questions: **__
 * 1) Name three reforms that Theodore Roosevelt made as president: The Bureau of Corporations, Meat inspection act, Environmental Protection.**


 * 2) Look for the names of three authors whose work led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. List their names and writings. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", Samuel Hopkins Adams' "The Great American Fraud", Florence Kelly's **


 * 3) Have you visited state parks, national forests, or wildlife preserves? What experiences can visitors have there that would not be possible without the efforts of Theodore **


 * 4) Roosevelt and others to conserve the American wilderness? Write your 1 paragraph with your thoughts. I've been to quite a few national parks. Most recently, Kings Canyon. Without Teddy, the National Parks may just become housing complexes instead of the beautiful places they are. **


 * 5) What various efforts were made to regulate concentrated corporate power? Supervised big businesses **


 * 6) What interest did Theodore Roosevelt have in environmental conservation? He believed it should be conserved and protected. **

Part 3:

=__<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Vocabulary Define: __=
 * Dynamic: characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality**


 * Schemes: elaborate and systematic plans of action **


 * Syndicate: A union of companies or multiple parties **


 * Insubordination: defiance of authority **


 * Established: brought about or set up or accepted **

= = =__<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Questions: __=
 * 1) List Taft’s conflicts with the progressives: Tariffs, Us steel, CYes because of some of the things like filing a lawsuit against US Steel. **


 * 2) Based on what you have learned about Teddy Roosevelt, do you think he ran for president in 1912? Why or why not? Yes because of some of the things like filing a lawsuit against US Steel. **


 * 3) How did Theodore Roosevelt help Taft get elected? He won by being teddy's successor and won by popular vote. **


 * 4) Why were progressives disappointed in Taft as president? He failed to fight for lower tariffs, and he modified some conservations polices so that they favored business **

Part 4:

=__<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Vocabulary Define: __=
 * Capacity: The maximum amount of something can contain**


 * Levying: Collecting by assessment**


 * Income Tax : a personal tax levied on annual income**


 * Unfair Trade Practices: Practices that constitute unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices.**


 * Labor: Physical work**


 * Foundation: The originating place or source**

__ Questions: __
 * 1) Imagine that you worked in the White House during the presidencies of both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Write a journal entry comparing and contrasting their presidential styles. Be specific in describing their personalities and presidential actions. Imagine that you worked in the White House during the presidencies of both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Write a journal entry comparing and contrasting their presidential styles. Be specific in describing their personalities and presidential actions. **


 * 2) Think about how Teddy Roosevelt’s decision to run for president again influenced the election of 1912. **


 * 3) What effect might this have had on the country? "I asked myself, what if Roosevelt had won in 1912 and run against Taft? Had he gotten the Republican nomination, he **
 * almost surely would have won. **


 * 4) Think about the child labor laws that President Wilson supported. The Republican Party would have continued to be the party of reform, which is certainly what Roosevelt stood for, and his platform in 1912 was perhaps the most radical platform that any major candidate has ever run on." **


 * 5) How do similar laws affect you and your class- mates today? A few years ago many of my classmates and I were interested in getting a summer job, yet we were unaware that there was a law saying that we couldn't work under the age of fifteen. **


 * 6) Should there still be federal guidelines to restrict the hours or places in which people under age 14 can work? I believe that those "guidelines" should not be in place, in my eyes if said person has the knowledge and skill to do the job, and they want to do the job they should be entitled to it. **


 * 7) what were the major successes of the Progressive movement? Democracy Freedom Positive liberty Women's suffrage Economic progressivism **


 * 8) What were the major failures? Child labor remained in place, African-Americans still faced inequality **


 * 9) How would you evaluate the legacy of the Progressive movement? "Among the many "successes" of Progressivism were antitrust laws, state and national income taxes, increased business regulation, minimum wage laws, direct election of U.S. senators, creation of the Federal Reserve System, and prohibition of alcoholic beverages." **

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