Aim: In the Progressive Era, how and why did reformers seek to address the problems of industrial America? To what extent did they succeed?
Bell Ringer: Discuss and collect "City Utilities Assignment" from Friday.
Objective:
1. Students should be prepared to analyze how corruption in government forced Americans to insist on reform of their government. Activist groups and reform movements during this period, such as the Populists and the progressives, demanded changes ranging from government oversight to regulation of industry.
Agenda:
1. Chapter 19 Vocabulary Quiz / Collect Chapter 19 IDs (15 min)
2. Review Journal 105 / A: In the 1880s, the legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction and disputes regarding economic policy drew many Americans into politics. Voters came out to the polls in larger numbers than at any other time in American history to represent their regional, economic, and racial interests. The result was a series of close elections throughout the 1880s and early 1890s.
3. In Defense of Home and Hearth by Mary Elizabeth Lease (5 min)
4. Waving the bloody shirt (POL), Gilded Age (NAT), Pendleton Act (POL)
5. In what ways and to what extend did the Interstate Commerce Act represent a departure from the laissez-faire philosophy of the federal government during this time?
6. Sherman Antitrust Act (POL), Lodge Bill (POL) - The Lodge Bill was proposed to redress the inequalities in the South for black voters that remained despite passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. These inequalities would not be overcome until passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The Populist Party - Labor and Agrarian radicals: called for public ownership of railroad and telegraph systems, protection of land from monopoly and foreign ownership, a federal income tax on the rich, and a looser monetary policy to help borrowers.
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO9MJqbCcuI&t=443s (9 min)
Home Learning:
1. Read pages 644-650
2. Journal 106 - How did different groups of Americans react to the economic depression of the 1890s, and what happened as a result?
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