Wednesday, January 8th - Period 7 Lesson 2

Open Ended

How did innovations like the assembly line, automobile and airplane alter society over the course of the previous 120 years?

• Election of 1912

  • 3 way presidential race

  • Taft (Repubican)

  • Wilson (Democrat)

  • Roosevelt (Progressive/Bull-Moose) Former Republican

  • 2 "Republican" candidates split the vote and Woodrow Wilson wins

  • Both political parties believed in regulation

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​The Progressive Era

• Clayton Anti-Trust Act

  • Created the Federal Trade Commission to regulate potential monopolies

    • Sherman Anti-trust 2.0

• Forest Reserve Act

  • Marked a shifted in federal land policy

  • Giving away land to homesteaders and railroads to retention for the public good

  • resulted in Nat. Parks, etc (191mil acres)

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​The Progressive Era

• Progressive Amendments

  • 16th Amendment

    • Federal income tax

    • revenue based on taxes over tariffs

  • 17th Amendment

    • How are 2 senators elected in each state?

    • created a popular vote in each state vs. state legislatures picking

    • issues with corruption

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​The Progressive Era

• Progressive Amendments

  • 18th Amendment

    • prohibition of alcohol

    • production, transport and sale

    • product of decades of effort by the Temperance movement

    • alleviate poverty and other societal problems

    • enforcement difficult

    • organized crime, bootlegging, speakeasies

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​The Progressive Era

• Progressive Amendments

• 19th Amendment

  • Granted women's suffrage

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​The Progressive Era

​Progressive Era (Some Gilded Age) Search and Rescue Activity -

• We will be in the hallway matching clues with terms and pictures.
  
  Each clue leads to a term on a separate paper.
  
  To check - your last term in #17 with the clue should lead you back to #1 if you have done it right

​Packet Assignments for Today...

p.76 - Muckraking - situational decision - what would you do?
p.79 - Primary source analysis - dangers of monopolies
p.80 - Political reforms and women's suffrage - political cartoon
p.81 - Electoral college analysis - impact of 3rd parties