Lesson on Wednesday, February 14, 2018

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: Review Journal 106 / A: The severe depression of the 1890s transformed the nation. In 1894 and 1896, voters outside the South voted overwhelmingly for Republicans, who promised safety and prosperity. These elections destroyed the rising People's Party and ended the era of close party competition in national elections. In the South, Democrats moved from being the leading political party to becoming virtually the only political party. The resulting formal disenfranchisement and segregation of African Americans left a bitter legacy that lasted for generations.  (5 min)

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. Collect "City Utilities Assignment" from Friday!!!!!! 

2. NOTE: You need to understand how continued growth and consolidation of large corporations spurred both economic growth and episode of increasingly severe market instability. 

3. Depression and Reaction (WXT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mJDQyiScMc (6 min)

4. William vs. Mississippi (POL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neqZFinlW50 (3 min) as a result of similar laws enacted by most Southern states, voter turnout plunged from "70% to 34% or even lower. Blacks and many poor whites ceased to vote." / "The racial climate hardened. Segregation laws proliferated. Lynchings of African Americans increasingly occurred in broad daylight, with crowds of thousands gathered to watch." This came to be known as the Solid South (POL)

5. Journal 107 - How did politics change in the South between the 1880s and the 1910s? (10 min)

[please read the caption next to this image on page 647]

Journal 107 / A: With the triumph of the Democratic Party in the South, the racial climate hardened. Segregation laws proliferated, barring blacks not only from white schools and railroad cars but also from hotels, parks, and public drinking fountains. Lynchings of African Americans increasingly occurred in broad daylight, with crowds of thousands gathering to watch. As in the south, many northern states imposed literacy tests and restrictions on voting by new immigrants. In the wake of such laws, voter turnout declined.

6. Map 20.4 on page 648 (3 min)

7. Lochner v. New York (POL), https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/capitalism/landmark_lochner.html (handout)

*Position the Lochner decision in the context of the issues facing urban America during the Progressive Era.

Terms to Know: "waving the bloody shirt", Gilded Age, Pendleton Act, Sherman Antitrust Act, Omaha Platform, Williams v. Mississippi, Lochner v. New York, 


Home Learning:

1. Panic of 1893 with Lawrence Reed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_b6N-G1Os (1 hr, 10 min)

2. How does money find its value? The Gold Standard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdyHso5iSZI (5 min)

3. Read pages 650 - 656