Intro 1920's Warm Up One- 03/30/15

What nicknames have you heard of for this decade?
"The Roaring 20's" and "The Jazz Age"
What years are included in the 1920's?
1920-1929
Change over time

1900-1919:

• World War I starts and ends
• New Freedom and New Nationalism
• Progressivism- government as a tool for social welfare
• Fourteen Points
• Workers' rights
• Anti-trust acts
• The Sedition Acts
• Conservation
• Socialism
• Article 10 (X)
• Red Scare
• Prohibition (18th amendment)
• Square Deal
• Food and Drugs Act
• Muckrackers

1920-1929

• 19th Amendment
• Communism
• Sacco and Vanzetti Case
• Immigration Quota Act 1921
• Immigration Act of 1924
• Nativism
• Scopes Trial
• Fundamentalists
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (lost generation)
• Great Crash of 1929
• Herbert Hoover
• Laissez-faire
• Gangsterism
• KKK
• Automobiles
• Aristocracy- new v. old (money, cultures, immigrants)

Continuity and Change over Time

• Foreign policy/ isolationism
• immigration attitudes (KKK)
• women's rights and struggles
• social;/political status of African Americans

What technological change have you experienced in your lifetime and what broader changes occurred as a result?

• Mobile phones (iPhones) > total reliance on cell phones as well as a cultural shift towards interactions through media rather than in person
• The spread of misinformation through social media and the internet
• Cleaner emissions from cars >> 
•  Alternative fuel sources.
• Pollution levels are dropping (awareness)
• Business changes
• Eco-friendly modes of transportation
• Smart Phones
• Globalization
• Shift in socialization
• Instant communication
• Limited talking
• Photography
• Shift in how information is received and sources. Access of information
• Less reliance on television and newspapers
• Invasion of privacy

1920's

• Bull Market
• easy credit
• Speculation: investing in stocks with hopes of getting rich quick.
• Paid with borrowed money
• Ponzi schemes
• Technology Change v. Cultural Change
• Hollywood
• Talkies
• Radio (national culture emerges)
• Automobile
• Airplanes
• Education System- John Dewey and "hands on learning"
• Art Movement
• Modernist v. Fundamentalist
• Women's movement
• Jazz Age (flappers) -cultural movement in community

Categories:
1. Social Groups and emergences: Women, Gangsterism, immigration, Ku Klux Klan, modernists, flappers, Red Scare,  jazz age, scopes trial
2. Government and economics: Automobiles, Mass consumption, laissez-faire, fundamentalism, capitalism, market economy, Scopes trial, Bull market, stock market, Fordism, Andrew Melon, Atkins v. Children's Hospital
3. Politics: KKK, Prohibition, capitalism
4. Technology: Jazz singer, automobiles

Should the 1920's be considered a distinct historical period from the decades directly before and after it?
The 1920's were a period of time that included changes in economics, politics, technology, and social groups.

1920's Chapter Reviews

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yHQkUec5DG8pWRkC7D2of2662ynXKYZ_5rR6U39K0jo/edit?usp=sharing

Progressivism Essential Questions

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pW7aIkUHlTB0Q3zc3LBMWqtF0Jzbdj7-Bwd3wEQo0Y0/edit?usp=sharing

Progressivism Essential Questions

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WWI Reading Guides

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nKsnknEiqvl5xn_IjwMh3bLN0SMgY50B8e-OLQzvQAc/edit?usp=sharing

Progressivism Notes: Chapter 28

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eJrPfDgfFIz4pcg70eCGepFLDJ9CCJlr38eJnairjJo/edit?usp=sharing

The Jungle Reading and Responses

Response to Reading (Problems):  Spreading of Tuberculosis, spoiled meat, rat contamination, poisoning, and spoiling of goods were among the principle problems outlined by Sinclair in The Jungle. He detailed grisly occurrences within the industry, including dead vermin and lots of poor upkeep of the food.
Response to Reading (Problems): Sinclair mentions the wool-pluckers, whose hands were eaten up with acid in order to loosen the wool of sheep; those that made the tin cans for meat, whose bare hands were laced with cuts and each cut was prone to blood poisoning; those that worked at the stamping machines risked having a part of their hand chopped off; the hoisters that moved cattle developed severe back problems; some men fell into open vats full of steam, leaving nothing but bones. The plight of the factor worker was severe.

1. It was very emotionally provocative, and it effectively gave Americans a personal attachment to attempting to improve conditions for factory workers as well as ensuring safer food and meat for public consumption. Muckraking was very motivational and effective in its careful construction and appeal to pathos.
2. I would expect them to set new guidlines and construct laws to ensure the safety of factory workers as well as improved sanitation for the food that is going to be consumed by Americans. They should also support inspections of factories to make sure these laws are being carried out.
3. With labor unions demanding more rights and the problems only getting stronger, it is assumable that the conditions would be realized and speedily improved; it is an embarrassment for big companies to have bad public relations and a tarnished image, so it is safe to say that eventually, when the whistle was blown, conditions would improve.

Parts of Act to Try and Solve Problem: Meat food products distributed to the American public must be wholesome, unadulterated, and properly labeled for safe consumption; the ones that don't meet these requirements can be sold for a cheaper price if advertised as such. The burden is placed on the government to regulate such commmerce and to protect the health and welfare of the consumers. An examination of all food and meat is required and can be done at any time, and passing food must be inspected and passed or subsequently condemned. All slaughtering of meat must be sanitary and conditions have to be maintained and inspected.

Parts of Act to Try and Solve Problem:  You are not allowed to produce or manufacture adulterated and uninspected food for sale. You are prohibited from transporting uninsepcted or adulterated meat and food across state and national boundaries. The Secretary of Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor must make the rules for and carry out these provisions. Examinations of food and drugs shall be made in the borough of chemistry or of the Department of Agriculture. Meat and food may not be misbranded. If these are violated the company will be taken to the highest court of the United States for trial. Companies must guarantee the safety and cleanliness of their products and must clearly display their information on packaging. 

Progressive Era DBQ

Thesis: The time from 1900-1920 in America is colloquially referred to as the "Progressive Era" because of its rich reform movements and advocation on part of the American public for local, state-level, and federal change. The Progressive Era effectively fostered change at a national level in terms of the economy, industries and labor, and land conservation; however, not many strides were made for African-Americans, women, and immigrants.
Topic Sentences:

1. Both Roosevelt and Wilson placed high importance on improving the American economy, industries and labor, and land conservation. Roosevelt was tagged with the nickname "trustbuster" for his benevolence towards diminishing what he considered to be bad trusts, as well as creating a plan named 'the three C's': conservation, consumer protection, and control of corporations. Likewise, Wilson laid out his desire to break down the 'triple wall of privilege': tariffs, banks, and trusts and was adamant about his support of small businesses and yearn to bust all trusts. These goals were acheived with many new pieces of legislation, including The Pure Food and Drug Act, The Underwood Tariff, Forest Reserve Act, the Federal Reserve Act, and so on and so forth.
2. The Progressive Era failed in its effectiveness in elevating the lives of the most marginalized groups of individuals at the time; African-Americans, women, and immigrants. Wilson, inadvertently or not, caused further segregation to occur during his presidency, and the rights of black individuals was not a main concern of the era,  due to the high exposure during the Reconstruction Era of the preceeding century. Women gained traction with court cases such as Muller v. Oregon and ultimately the Susan B. Anthony (or 19th) Amendment's ratification granting universal female suffrage, however fundamental human rights were still not necessarily secured by the federal government. Immigrants received attention within the cities with movements like settlement houses, but rampant xenophobia and a strong dislike for the intrusion into the American workforce blocked any further progress for immigrants during this time.

Chapter 29 Reading Guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dKlXo62_MJr0JQFgZo7OuT4FQ102_0cDRS5M_ot0KDk/edit?usp=sharing

Progressive Warm-up 3/10/15

Should historians continue to treat the Progressive Era as its own period in American history?

Historians should continue to treat the Progressive Era as its own period in history because it represented a change in American history that differed from preceding era/s such as the Guilded Age; the major goal being to use the government as an agency of human welfare as well as reform society in general. This can be supported with the expansion of the presidency with Theodore Roosevelt and his elimination of all the, so called, "bad trusts" who had too much power. This can be refuted by the status of the women who were an indispensable catalyst in the Progressive army and still could not vote or hold political office.

Progressivism Day 1 warm Up

1. The white community struggled to understand the cultural ways of the natives and how they functioned as a tribe. Natives were forced into the culture of the white man. This clash occurred because the white men were attempting to expand into the frontier when the land initially belonged to the natives. As the white settlers are crossing the Mississippi River to the West there's the clashing idea between the white men and natives which is "this is my land". Some significant battles include the Battle of Little Bighorn where Colonel William Armstrong Custer leads more than 200 soldiers against 10,000 Indians which results in a victory for the natives. Another battle is the Battle of Bear Paw Mountain which included the Nez Perce tribe fleeing for Canada to escape being forced onto a reservation/ They were caught 40 miles from Canada. There are less battles than there are massacres. The natives had an advantage since they could shoot more arrows in the time that the white man could shoot them. Troops circled around 400 natives in the sand Creek Massacre who thought they had immunity and killed them all.

2. With the Dawes Severalty Act we see the overall goal being, erase the tribes and set Indians on the road to becoming like the white community. The law states that Indians could become U.S. citizens after 25 years if they behaves as the government preferred. Helen Hunt Jacksons book "A Century of Dishonor" outlines all the injustices done to Native Americans. Bringing the Natives into the land helps out the Natives with private land and equal rights. The Carlisle Indian School sought to immerse the Indian children in white culture. The Treaty of Dort Laramie was made between the Sioux tribe and the federal government. With this treaty the government fives up on the Bozeman Trail and the huge Sioux reservation was established. It was a short-lived treaty.

3. The cattle ranches boomed because it relies on the open range of the West and southern Texas. The cowboys go on this long drive all the way to a cow town. The cow towns sprout up next to railroads. It takes the cattle from Texas to the great plains to take meat to the East. The introduction of barbed wire and sheep farming ends this open range which ends the cattle drive. We also see drought affecting the decline of cows. With mining towns gold and silver would be found and boomtowns would be created from the influx of people. The boomtowns were known for their lawlessness and would form right where the mining towns are. Once all the resources had been used up most of the towns would be abandoned and become ghost towns. Women also gained more independence in the West where some states would allow them to vote and have jobs.

1994 Imperialism DBQ

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RtFSnC28y5Qnez9JwvVEs5vu5U5r6YoefBEVzVP8GWk/edit?usp=sharing