Sunday, March 15, 2015

Objective 1.9 Essential Questions




-The extent of muckrakers, Social Gospel reformers,settlement house volunteers, social workers, and other experts reflected the central assumptions of progressivism by:

  • muckrakers- wanted to to exposes conflicts to the public's eye
  • Social Gospel reformers-Shorter Hours in the work area, factory regulations
  • Settlement house workers-better upon the life of the poor
  • Social workers-improve conditions for vast amount of people

SFI:
-Jane Addams
-Florence Kelley

-Progressives attempted to free government and Politics from the domination of the political parties because the politicians of these political parties were associated with unlawful affairs due this it called for direct Senator elections.
-SFI:

-The Federal Government and The progressive era reformers from the 1900-1920 wanted to improve labor conditions for women and wanted to limit it for kids. The government wanted social change to occur and have improvement on the economy. women were more involved in the work force more wanted rights to vote.
SFI:
-Child Labor Act 1916
- Declined in Votes 1900-1920
-1914 Social Change



-The Government got support on the home front by the method of propaganda using important events such as the Zimmerman notes and the unrestricted warfare to trigger americans of the tragic events that happened where lives where lost. they also used women to motivate men into going to war by patriotism.
SFI:
-1917 Zimmerman Notes
-Patriotism (women,posters)
- loans
-Unrestricted submarine warfare



1)The U.S. senate wanted the United States to remain neutral and to stay out of foreign affairs and that's how they would keep tension away with other foreign nations and keep peace by starting  the league of nations and rejecting the treaty of versailles which did not prevent the threat of future war.
SFI:
-14 points Woodrow Wilson
-Wilson's League of Nations
-Treaty of Versailles (punish Germany)

2)SFI:

1.9 objective Progressive Era DBQ

Thesis: The progressive era impacted our nation by strengthening it. To improve upon our government for social,economic,and labor change. Which would change america in to the modern nation it is today.

Sources:Document: C,G,F






Main idea: Progressive era improvement for individuals and the nation.

1.2 and 1.4 Objectives Wilson and World War 1 (instructional video notes)





Objective 1.1 Progressive era and the Republican Roosevelt 1901-1912



Monday, February 2, 2015

The Philosophy of the Industrialists

Primary Source


Primary source: African Americans
  • Colored National Convention. Their purpose "to inquire into actual condition" of blacks in america.
  • the intended audience is the people her wanted to no more about blacks and the movements of america
  • the point view of the author was to represents that there are large amounts of colored people who want to fight for their rights.the author implies this in the picture by putting several men in one room and one of them raising there hand.
  • African American right during the Glided age
  • this brings mind about famous leaders who wanted the rights for african americans
Primary source: Women in the Gilded Age
  • Women in the working area worked just as hard as men.
  • the intended audiences is those whom want to learn more about women and there influences during 1800s to 1900s
  • the point of view that was established by document is that many women worked and factories and spend long hours working in large area with barley any space the author demonstrates this by showing many large factories.
  • women in the glided and in the great depression
  • this document brings in mind many of the times of industrialization and what the average women of modern america was.
  • Primary Source Immigration
  • the idea of this sources is to show how many people would live in one crowed tenement mostly poor people and immigrants.
  • the intended audience is for whom wanted to see the way poor people lived in the cities most of these in the cities being immigrants 
  • the author point of view is probably that many of these people used the home just to sleep and would focus mainly on going to work and when everyone would be in the household the tenement would be cramped.
  • immigration of the gilded age
  • third world countries way of life












































Secondary Sources

Secondary Source: Immigration
1)The Immigrant Experience in the Glided Age
2) Roger Daniels
3) The author is addressing the migration of old immigrants and new immigrants of the Gilded age. he address why immigrants have moved into the regions they are in and why they have left there home country.
4)All Immigrants of the Glided Age period came from Western Europe.
5) Evidence: 
-"three-fifths of all immigrants in the period came from Western Europe. Most of them from Britain,Ireland, and Scandinavia."
6) who where the immigrants? where did they come from? why did they leave home?

Secondary Source: African Americans in Glided Age
1)The African-American Experience 
2)Leslie H. Fishel jr
3) Population of African Americans Doubled in the South.African Americans where looking to fully access there freedom. also African Americans wanted to hold office. how african americans in the north and the south live and what where they looking for moving in to new regions.
4) Corners of the country experienced a revolution in economic activity, territorial expansion,demography, class structure,education and politics. No community felt the impact of this more than the people of color.
5) Evidence: -"Freedom was only one of many economic and political problems that dogged the white south the final two decades of the century."
-"In the 1870s most black where weigh down by little political support and less economic opportunity."
-"whites unwillingness to accept black voting and office holding."
-"most southern blacks where hopelessly tied to farming."
-"The Black population in the North and West practically doubled from about 460,000 to over 910,000"
6) What major problems did African Americans had during the Glided Age?

Secondary Source: Women in Glided Age
1) Women in Industrializing America
2) Stacy A. Cordery
3) How the origins of modern America Affected Women
4)The Glided Age was the acceleration of industrialization and affected all women in modern american.
5) Evidence:-"During this period,women's political campaigns,and above all the push for women's rights begun in 1848"
-"Women learned to voice their demands in front of hostile audiences and to articulate critical rebuttals."
-"Women compromised 14 percent of total work force in 1870 and 16 percent in 1890."
6)Where there more positive or negative affects of modern america on women?