1. The Progressive Era- WWI

2. The Essential Questions
How did Americans benefit from Progressive Reforms?
How does the women’s suffrage, the NAACP, 17th Amendment, and the CIvil Service COmmission expand democracy?
WHat specific social, political, and economic problems needed reform in the late 19th century (aka late 1800s)?
How did the federal government help the reform movement through amendments and legislation?
Do we still have these problems? To what extent?

3. Setting the stage
The Progressive Era was a time in the early 1900s when concerned citizens began to fight for reforms in all aspects of society.
The Progressive Era movements started many years before this, though, in a time known as the 2nd Great Awakening

4. The 2nd Great Awakening
In the early 1800s, a religious fervor (energy) swept across America (aka Great Awakening)
This movement led many Americans to want to fix problems in our society
Reform movements began that addressed education, voting, slavery, alcohol abuse and women’s rights

5. Muckrakers
Journalists who exposed problems to the public became known as muckrakers b/c they exposed corruption in society.

6. Famous Muckrakers Ida Tarbell Ida B. Wells
Exposed the terrible working conditions at Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company
Ida B. Wells
Publicizing the practice of lynching in the South (A Red Record)

7. Class Task
Investigate: Pick one of the muckrakers below. How was each muckraker trying to help?
Samuel Hopkins Adams:
Nellie Bly:
Lewis Hine:

8. Who were the Progressive Reformers?
Progressives tended to be/have:
Middle Class
Educated
Time available to work on society’s problems
Women were powerful contributors to the different reform movements
Who were the Progressive Reformers?

9. b) enhanced the quality of life for all Americans
Due to the efforts of muckrakers and progressive reformers, reforms were passed that:
a) expanded democracy
b) enhanced the quality of life for all Americans

10. Expanding Democracy
Reformers wanted to ensure that more Americans were able to participate in our democracy
Reform movements: Women’s suffrage, 17th Amendment, Civil Service Reform, NAACP

11. Women’s Path toward Equality
For most of America’s history, women were not given equal treatment as men
Could not own property, divorce their husbands, go to the same schools/universities, perform certain jobs, or vote
Throughout the 1800s, women worked to gain more rights and opportunities
Women’s Path toward Equality

12. Seneca Falls Convention
Held July 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY
About 200 women and 40 men attended
Purpose of meeting was to discuss women’s rights
Issued a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Called for an end to discriminatory laws, more career and educational opportunities, and suffrage for women

13. Primary Resource Analysis
Read both the Declaration of Independence and the Seneca Falls Declaration and answer the following questions:
In what ways had mankind been unfair/unjust to women? List at least 2.
Why did the authors of the Seneca Falls Declaration use the Declaration of Independence as their model? What message were they trying to send?

14. Compare Declaration of Independence (1776)
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)

15. Women’s Suffrage
By the early 1900s, the women’s suffrage movement is getting more powerful
New inventions give women more time to get involved in causes outside of their homes
WWI empowered women with new jobs, opportunities and ideas about their roles in society that they didn’t want to give up

16. Opposition to Women’s Suffrage
People didn’t want women to vote b/c they were unsure what women might do
Women fight corruption and this worried the political machines
Businesses thought that women would support minimum wage and child labor laws
Others believe that women belonged at home and not in politics

17. National Women’s Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the NWSA in 1890
Worked to get women the vote in states (Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho)
Carrie Chapman Catt organized 1 million women
She felt that women should have a say in laws that affected them

18. National Women’s Party
Alice Paul, founder
More radical than the NWSA
Used parades, demonstrations, hunger strikes, pickets to bring awareness
Jailed many times

19. 19th Amendment (1920) 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
Gives all American women the right to vote

20. Ain’t I a Woman?
Listen to the speech, Ain’t I a Woman, by Sojourner Truth and respond to this statement:
Sojourner Truth believed that women were just as smart and capable as men to vote. Give three pieces of evidence from her speech to support this statement.

21. Monday, 3/7/16
Warm-up: Imagine you live in a society where a few people control EVERYTHING.Now, it is time to change that system.Think of some ways that you could better organize your society so that everyone has a more equal “voice” in your community.Draw a diagram that illustrates your new system. (7mins timed)
Homework: Notes Summaries are due Wednesday. This included highlighting notes and generating questions. Achieves are due Friday
DO a think pair share after giving kids 7mins to draw a diagram. They may need 10 mins to draw and label.

22. NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP fought discrimination and segregation
Fought to give blacks more rights and protections
Founded by W.E.B. DuBois
Believed African Americans’ lives would improve through legal protections
NAACP

23. Political Reform Most cities were controlled by political machines
Political machines were organizations that controlled all the jobs and services in the city
If you wanted a job or a service delivered to your community, you had to pay off the political boss
Politicians accepted bribes in return for jobs and favors
Political Reform

24. Political Reform cont’d
Government jobs were reserved for friends and family politicians in power (aka Spoils System)
As a result gov’t was very corrupt and poorly run
Common people had little power or say so in their government
Progressives want to fix this

25. Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Commission is created in 1871 under President Grant
People who want a job with the gov’t must now pass a test to prove they’re qualified
2 purposes:
Allows greater participation in democracy
Ensures that important gov’t positions are filled with skilled people
Civil Service Commission

26. 17th Amendment (1913)
Gives voters the right to directly elect their senators to Congress

27. Summary Question
How does Women’s Suffrage, the NAACP, 17th Amendment and the Civil Service Commission expand democracy?
Please answer this where is says Answer EQ#1 on page 1.
GIve 5 mins to left kids write their answer.

28. Enhancing our Quality of Life
Besides expanding democracy, reformers also wanted to improve Americans’ lives, create a healthier and safer environment, and protect workers and consumers from corruption
Reform movements: Temperance, minority protection and education, food and drug safety, conservation, and trust busting

29. Temperance Many felt that alcohol was to blame for society’s problems
Religious revivals (large meetings) preached the evils of alcohol
Groups start to push for laws to make alcohol illegal everywhere in the US
Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League
Temperance

30. 18th Amendment (1919)
Outlaws the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol
Ushers in an era known as Prohibition

31. Minority Protection & Education
Booker T. Washington - founded the Tuskegee Institute for African Americans
Advocate for education
Believed that African Americans’ lives would improve through better education opportunities

32. Minority Protection & Education
Native Americans
Society of American Indians: improve living conditions for Native Americans
Zitkala-Sa fought against Boarding schools
Mexican Americans
Alianza Hispano-Americo: fight for rights and protections of Mexican Americans
Founder: Carlos Velasco

33. Food and Drug Safety
For many years, the food and meat packing industry could add whatever they wanted to their products
No one knew what they were eating
A major scandal broke out when hundreds of American soldiers fighting in the Spanish-American War got sick from tainted meat they ate
Reformers became very concerned about the purity of the country’s food

34. The Jungle (1906) Author: Upton Sinclair
Wrote The Jungle to expose the terrible conditions of the meat packing industry
Led to new legislation
June 1906, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
January 1, 1907: the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is created to oversee federal regulation and inspection of medicines and foods
“I aimed for the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
The Jungle (1906)

35. The Jungle- Warmup for 3/8/16
After reading The Jungle, many Americans called upon the government to make changes to the food industry in order to make food safer. Cite three examples from the book that Americans might use to justify their demands.
Write down your homework and get out your notes page and laptop when done.
The Jungle- Warmup for 3/8/16

36. Conservation
March 1872: President Grant creates the first national park, Yellowstone National Park
Years later, President Teddy Roosevelt would set aside 150 National Forests, 51 Federal Bird Reservations, five National Parks, 18 National Monuments, 4 National Game Preserves, and 21 Reclamation Projects
Protecting nearly 230 million acres
August 1916: National Park Service is created

37. A trust is when the different owners of businesses form a group to eliminate competition and control the prices of their products
Trusts and monopolies had enormous control over American society, business and politics
President Teddy Roosevelt and members of Congress believed they had too much power and passed laws to break those trusts up
By breaking up trusts, workers and consumers are protected
Trust busting

38. The Jungle Group Activity
After reading the excerpt, each group(aka you and your elbow buddy) will rename the book to a name that more accurately reflects what is in the book – particularly their excerpt.
Students will draw a new cover for the book – again a cover that more accurately reflects what is in their excerpt.
Have each group answer the following questions on the back of their drawings. 1. What impact did this book have on the meatpacking industry? Do you think changes would have been made if the book had not been written? Defend your answer How does the impact of The Jungle represent the reforms of the Progressive Era?

39. Essential Learning
The Progressive Era dramatically changed America. At this time, please go back to your notes and answer all Summary Questions. These should be answered in 3-5 sentences.

40. Warm-up: 3/9/16
Warm-up: Do you think the United States should be involved in the business of other countries?
Economically?
Politically?
Militarily?

41. Achieve mins
Log on to Achieve 3000 and complete the following articles:
Aug. 1861: War Spreads
Nov. 1861: A Second War?
Jan 1862: The Union Tries to Make Gains
Be sure to fill out “How does this relate to class?” It’s okay if you talk about a previous class lesson, that is expected.
Do missing Achieves, or future ones when done.
Essayers: Finish up your rough draft. This is due when the time is up in Google Drive. Thank you!

42. What is American Imperialism???
Have students write a summary on the video. SHare with a partner

43. Thursday, 3/10/16
Warm-up:
What reform do you believe affected the society of America the most? Explain your decision.
Which do you believe had the weakest impact on society? Why?
Homework: Achieves due tomorrow. Fieldtrip money and permission slips are due 4/4.

44. What caused WWI to happen?
Catch All 4
Stockpiling of military forces by European countries
Death of Archduke Ferdinand
Germany invaded France
Alliances that called for European countries to fight against each other due to the Archduke’s death

45. Causes of WWI- Why did America join?
List the reasons on why America joined the war.

46. Binder Clean Out
Empty your notebook out of all the pages on the sideboard EXCEPT: Achieve Sheet, Progressive Era-WWI vocab, Progressive Era Notes, and Causes of WWI notes
2. When done, turn in your folder and do the following: Achieve 3000 or Study Vocab on Quizlet. THe vocab will be on the Weekly 5.

47. Warm-up Friday, 3/11/16
Weekly 10: TImed Reading on quia. I have the reading We all will start together.
Log-in to Achieve when you are done.
Homework: Missing Work

48. Battles of WWI
Students will complete a webquest to understand the complexities of WWI. Afterwards we will identify how the war directly affected the US.

49. Monday, 3/14/16
How does the cover of Over Here: WWI and the Fight for the American Mind personify Wilson’s idea of neutrality?
Give two examples of the concept of Americanism (aka what it means to be an American).

50. Battles of WWI
Students will complete a webquest to understand the complexities of WWI. Afterwards we will identify how the war directly affected the US.
If you finish early, work on Achieve 3000 or your essay. We are doing a trade and grade during the last 20mins of class.

51. Warm-up: Wednesday, 3/16/16
Recall: Who were the Allied Powers at the start of WWI(3)?Who were the Central Powers(3)?
Making a Prediction: How will America support the troops during WWI? How will WWI affect America on the homefront?
Get out your webquest. I am collecting these.
Get out your laptop, download “Progressive Era-WWI pwpt.” Go to slide 52.
Homework: Progress Reports and Achieves due Fri. Finish notes if you don’t finish in class.

52. Warning
If we cannot be respectful and we are shouting out/interrupting while Ms. Farley is speaking during the presentation, we will work on our own without her help on the notes and the EQs. This section of the pwpt should only take 1 day.

53. Essential Questions
How do nations become more involved in world affairs in the late 1800s and into the late 1900s?
What are the costs and benefits of neutrality and foreign intervention?
How did the role of the US in foreign affairs change at the turn of the century?
You will answer these after you are done your notes, along with generating questions using the 12 powerful words, and highlighting key terms. EX: Describe how the role of women changed because of the war.

54. Women in WWI radio operators, clerks, stenographers(before the war)
took over men’s jobs as they left for war
better pay but still not equal to men
factory work, assembled weapons & airplane parts, trolley drivers, mailmen, police officers
helped change view that women were only fit for “women’s work”

55. Organizing the War Effort at Home
A bureaucracy was set up by Wilson to reorganize the US economy to produce food, arms, and other goods needed to fight the war.
Bureaucracy: a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials

56. At Home Family liberty gardens
Farmers grew more crops to keep up with demand
“Wheatless Mondays” “Meatless Tuesdays”
the food saved by this helped the men in the trenches

57. Organizing the War Effort
War Industries Board: it told factories what they had to produce and divided up limited resources
War Labor Board: settled disputes over working hours & wages & tried to prevent strikes
less workers meant unions achieved higher pay and better working conditions

58. Liberty Bonds citizens lending government money to pay for the War

59. Anti-German Feelings
German-Americans experienced intolerance, suspicion, newspapers questioned loyalty, mob attacks on the street.
Propaganda helped spread this and it wasn’t only in the US

60. Problems at Home
1/2 million African Americans & thousands of Mexicans migrated from the south to the northern cities to escape racism and poverty
found better paying jobs, prejudice & violence
competition for housing & jobs led to race riots

61. Mexicans Needed Southwest ranchers needed workers
100,000 Mexicans immigrated
worked in cotton & beet fields, copper mines & steel mills

62. Opposition to the War Pacifists: people who refuse to fight in any war
Socialist: believe that the people as a whole, rather than private individuals should own all property and share the profits from all businesses. Socialists argued that the war benefited factory owners and not the workers.
Espionage and Sedition Acts: laws that make it a crime to criticize the government or to interfere with the war verbally or in print.
- Communism v. Socialism v. Capitalism

63. Problems with Russia
Nov Bolsheviks took over the provisional government in Russia.
Led by Lenin wanted a communist revolution
followed ideas of Karl Marx
workers would unite and overthrow the ruling class. End private property and set up a classless society.
Primary sources: The Withdrawal of Russia: Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

64. Problems with Russia: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia hated the war so they signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk March 1918
Russia lost land & natural resources to Germany but welcomed the peace
Germany then used all efforts towards defeating France

65. 1st Red Scare: ( )
US felt betrayed by Russia when they left the war
US was scared about Russia’s call for workers everywhere to revolt
US didn’t recognize the Communist Russian government & blocked Russian participation in the Paris Peace Conference
Fear in the US led to the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti’s trial and execution for murder

66. Connect to Background Info and More
Women: Most women went back to work in the home after the war. Connect to background knowledge: ask the students what their mothers do if they work outside the home and if they are a girl what they want to be when they grow up.
Help from home: Connect to background knowledge: ask students if they have ever grown anything like a garden. Ask them if they would if it would help feed soldiers in Afghanistan. Ask them: Why was there a world wide food shortage? Much of Europe couldn’t be cultivated.
Liberty Bonds: Half of what the US spent on the War was covered by this. $21 billion. Connect to background knowledge: does anyone have a federal savings bond?
Anti-German Feelings: families changed their names, schools stopped teaching the German language, concert halls banned works by German composers. Connect to Background Knowledge: Does the United States feel similar to this about another group today?
Problems at Home: Connect to Background Knowledge: Why are Mexicans coming to the United States today? What are their experiences?
Mexicans Needed: After the war there were problems when the men came back home and wanted to work again in the fields.

67. Warm-up: Thursday, 3/17
Warm-up: Why did the US join the war? Why did relations with Russia sour???
You need your laptops, achieve sheet, and pencil/pen today.
Homework: Achieves and Progress reports due Fri. Study Guide due 3/22, Unit test 3/23. Essayer- Final draft is due 3/22.

68. Achieve- 40 mins Freeing the SLaves The Sounds of History
Dispatch from the Civil War 1862
WRITE DOWN YOUR SCORES AND HOW IT RELATES OR RELATED TO CLASS!!!!!
If you get all articles for this week read, start on next week’s or pick ones that you want to do.
Essayers- we are working on our final draft. THis is due on 3/22

69. Wilson’s 14pts Plan v. Treaty of Versailles
Compare the two documents. Which one do you think would have worked best? How do you think the Treaty of Versailles will affect the US once signed? This is on a handout.
Review WWI in 6mins or less-
League of Nation's- play when we go over the 14pt plan:

70. Warm-up: Friday, 3/17
Warm Up: Write down “US History Political Cartoons - Weekly Assessment”
Log on to quia and do US History Political Cartoons - Weekly Assessment
Do Achieve when you are done!
I will collect warm-ups and Achieve sheets after our 25 mins of Achieve.

71. Wilson’s 14pts Plan v. Treaty of Versailles
Compare the two documents. Which one do you think would have worked best? How do you think the Treaty of Versailles will affect the US once signed? This is on a handout.
Review WWI in 6mins or less-
League of Nation's- play when we go over the 14pt plan:

72. Get out your homework, agenda, pen/pencil , and your laptop.
Warm-up: What emotions do you feel when you watch the video on the right? Predict how the Great Depression began.
Homework: Complete your practice tests on quia.com. There are 4. Practice vocabulary on quizlet. Essayers, make sure your essay meets the rubric requirements and turn it in by Wed after the test.
Warm-up Monday, 3/21/16
Have students do a think pair share on the warm-up.

73. Great Depression Investigation
We will be completing a webquest on the Great Depression and New Deal. During the Depression, we will have two presidents: Hoover, and FDR. Only one of these men will bring the country out of the Depression. You job is to figure out what caused the Depression and how we got out of it.

74. What you will need: Laptop, investigation sheet, and pen/pencil
Go to the following websites: and
You will be working on your own. If we are silently working for 40 mins, I will let you work with a partner for the rest of the class.
I expect you to complete 4 pages today.
If you finish the packet, you will should work on your practice tests.
Students will not finish all 6 pages. We will review this tomorrow.

75. Warm-up Tuesday 3/22 Get out your Great Depression Packet. Warm-up:
Describe how the Great Depression began.
Was the Great Depression felt elsewhere around the world? Explain how you know this.
Homework: Finish Practice test on quia. Your test is tomorrow. Essayers:Make sure your essay meets the rubric requirements and turn it in by Wed after the test.

76. What you will need: Laptop, investigation sheet, and pen/pencil
Go to the following websites: and
You will be working on your own. You are expected to finish this packet in the next 30 mins.
If you finish the packet, you will should work on your practice tests without disturbing others.
We will review what the students got for their answers after the 30 mins are up. I will cut time down shorter if I notice the majority of the students have finished.

77. Switch to ELmo
Review the answers the students should have gotten. After the review, we will be given time to work on the practice tests.

78. Practice Tests
On quia, students will finish working on the practice tests for the unit. These practice tests were assigned last Wednesday. The students were made aware that these four practice tests were their study guides and that they could be taken multiple times.

79. Warm-up Wednesday, 3/23 Get out your laptops and log-on to Quia.com.
Select Unit 7- Progressive Era- the Great Depression
Secret Word:
When you are done, raise your hand for a Q4 Achieve 3000 sheet and complete your new achieves
Essayers- Share with me your final essay and read your AR book
Homework: 45 mins of Achieve time

80. Warm-up Thursday 3/24
Turn in your Warm-up sheet and your new Achieve Sheet
Clear your desk of everything except a pen/pencil.
You will receive a movie guide for “ The Grapes of Wrath.”
You will complete this movie guide while following S.L.A.N.T.
Grapes of Wrath will have to be finished after Spring Break due to the length of the movie. This will allow for Pier and Turcol to catch up. THis will also, hopefully, help keep Weekly 5s more all on the same topic.