1. Let’s Get Organized! Industrial Work Cause Effect Teddy Roosevelt
Nature
Strength
New Vocab/Other facts that interest me

2. Chapter 6, Lesson 2 Reading Guide
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Becoming a World Power
Chapter 6, Lesson 2 Reading Guide

3. Problems with an industrial society
Dangerous factories
Poorly trained workers had accidents
Children were injured badly and sometimes killed working in factories
Smoke, smog, pollution from factories filled the air
If children are working, they are not attending school
Waste is dumped in rivers and lakes
Forests were cut down and no new trees replaced them
Frequent explosions and accidents in coal mines

4. Lesson 2: The Progressive Movement
Vocabulary to know:
trust
muckraker
Progressives
conservation
Blue Laws
You should be able to…
Analyze how social, political, moral, and economic reforms during the T.Roosevelt presidency affected Americans.
Explain the role of media and the arts in the Progressive Movement
Discuss the accomplishments and limits of the Progressive Movement

5. Trust vs. Monopoly
What is the difference between a monopoly and a trust?
Monopoly: A monopoly is a company that owns all parts of a business
Trust:
A trust is when different companies meet to reduce competition and form prices within the same range.

6. Connect to the real world!!!
Trust vs. Monopoly
What is the difference between a monopoly and a trust?
If McDonald’s owned cattle ranches, potato farms, bread factories, trucking companies, pickle factories, condiment factories, soda factories, and paper making factories, it would own ALL PARTS of its business. That would be a MONOPOLY. When the owners of McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, and Hardee’s all get together and agree that they will all charge five dollars for all of their burgers. That is a TRUST. (and you can’t go anywhere else to get a cheaper burger!)
Connect to the real world!!!
Turn and Talk: Are there any monopolies or trusts in today’s business world? Why or why not?

7. Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressives
Would you rather work hours a day at a dangerous job or attend school?
What do you think the word muck means?
You go to Kroger to buy chicken and beef. How does it get there?
Muck is Yuck!!

8. The 16th Amendment: Income Tax
Our country needed MONEY for all that it wanted to do with reforms.
In 1913, Congress decided to TAX all working people’s INCOME (money they made from doing work).
Now, when you get paid in the US, you MUST donate a part of your earned income to the federal government!!

9. Yosemite National Park
Caring for Nature
What does it mean to “conserve” something?
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Conservation is protecting something from being destroyed or used up.
Let’s see what our President and his friend John Muir saw!!
Yosemite National Park

10. Grand Canyon National Monument
In 1908, President Roosevelt set aside 800,000 acres in Arizona as the Grand Canyon National Monument. It would later become a national park.

11. Our Nature President Created the National Wildlife Refuge Program
Organized the US Forestry Service
Stopped the sale of 235 acres and made them into national forests
Grand Canyon in Arizona
Yosemite in California
Created more than 16 national monuments, 51 wildlife refuges, and 5 new national parks by the time he left office in 1909!!!

12. Further Research Check your work for completion. Additional websites:
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13. "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
What do you think President Roosevelt meant by this statement?
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