Labor/ Social Reforms (2/10/23)

Random Fact

Peanuts are used to make

dynamite (sort of)

Peanuts are actually an ingredient in
dynamite. They have oil in them called
glycerol that's used to create nitroglycerin,
a key ingredient in dynamite.

Black History Fact:

Thurgood Marshall was the first
African American ever appointed to
the U.S. Supreme Court. He was
appointed by President Lyndon B.
Johnson and served on the court
from 1967 to 1991.

Labor and Social Reforms

Learning Target

I can identify how the various social and labor reforms tried to bring about change in the United States by analyzing specific examples.

The Granger Movement

-Many Farmers facing hardships and isolation of rural
life would join the Grange

-Originally met to develop social ties, or form a sense of
community

-Farmers realized that the railroad companies had a
great control over their livelihoods

-Railroads were the main way in which goods were delivered.
Railroads could charge large amounts of money for shipping

-Granger movement pressed for limits to the power of
railroads

-Regulation would be implemented after Munn v. Illinois

Populist Movement:

-Was made up of many factory workers
and farmers

-They formed a political party known as
the Populist Party

-Goals: graduated income tax, direct election of
United States Senators, eight-hour workday,
and government ownership of railroads,
telegraphs, and telephones

-WilliamJennings Bryan(Populist) vs. William
Mckinley(Republican)

Muckrakers

-Muckrakers: investigated and exposed corruption and injustice through articles
in mass-circulation magazines. Also wrote novels dramatizing situations that
demanded reform

Muckraker

Book/Article

Subject of Expose

Ida Tarbell

History of the Standard Oil
Company (1904)

Ruthless practices of
Standard Oil Company

Jacob Riis

How the Other Half Lives
(1890)

Conditions of the poor in
New York’s Tenements

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle (1906)

Dangerous and unsanitary
conditions in meatpacking
industry

Activity:

-Half of you will be looking at the different types of labor reforms, and the other half of you will be looking at different types of social reforms

-Readings for these charts are in google classroom titled "Labor Reforms" and "Social Reforms"

- DO NOT PANIC.... I know it looks like a lot but it is not too bad.