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Monday 11/19/12. RAP What was the progressive movement about? Explain. Today: Read “Woman Suffrage”—page 258 Read Ch. 9.3 and take notes on “Limits to Progressivism” (vocabulary, people, ideas, etc) If you finish make a chart –on Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as you read Ch. 9.1 and 9.2
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Monday 11/19/12 RAP What was the progressive movement about? Explain. Today: Read “Woman Suffrage”—page 258 Read Ch. 9.3 and take notes on “Limits to Progressivism” (vocabulary, people, ideas, etc) If you finish make a chart –on Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as you read Ch. 9.1 and 9.2 Newspaper DUE tomorrow beginning of class.
Woman Suffrage • As we read about the suffrage movement please think about… • What did these women want? • What were some of the obstacles women faced in trying to get voting rights? • When did women get the right to vote? • What amendment granted women the right to vote? • Who were some of the major leaders in the suffrage movement?
Newspapers • Brainstorm sheet has to be complete! (will be turned in with newspaper) • Individual grade- except 10 points • MUST HAVE • Cite your pictures, graphs, charts, maps, etc (underneath them). NO www.google.com • Under the title of your article— put the authors name!! • You receive a lab grade! • Have fun and be creative…if you are unsure …ask me!
Today: Please read quietly so that everyone can get this done before tomorrow. Thank you. • Read Ch. 9.3 and take notes on “Limits to Progressivism” (vocabulary, people, ideas, etc) • Be able to explain which three groups were limited in the progressive movement. • Be able to explain how they were limited. • If you finish make a chart –on Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as you read Ch. 9.1 and 9.2 • Newspaper DUE tomorrow beginning of class.
Tuesday 11/20 RAP • Was everyone helped during the Progressive era? Explain. (give examples) Today: • CE • “Iron jawed Angels”—movie on the suffrage movement • Turn in Newspaper
Monday 11/26/12 RAP • What did you think of the movie “Iron Jawed Angels” ? • Did you do anything fun over Thanksgiving break? Today: Review 9.3--- PPT notes Video on the above Presidents Chart on Presidents– Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Progressivism Limits • African Americans • Jim Crow laws • Plessy v. Ferguson • Supreme court ruled separate, segregated facilities were constitutional as long as they were equal. • This ruling laid a legal foundation for discrimination in accommodations, services, education, housing, hiring, health care, legal representation and everything affecting American life and held a firm hold on race relations in the United States until President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited employment discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, or religion; and prohibited public access discrimination, leading to desegregation of everything that had been segregated by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 • Separate but equal –inherently unequal
ALABAMANurses. No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to work in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which Negro men are placed.Buses. All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races.Railroads. The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs.Restaurants. It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. FLORIDAIntermarriage. All marriages between a white person and a Negro, or between a white person and a person of Negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited.Cohabitation. Any Negro man and white woman, or any white man and Negro woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars.Education. The schools for white children and the schools for Negro children shall be conducted separately.
LOUISIANAHousing. Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a Negro person or a Negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family, or vice versa when the building is in occupancy by a Negro person or Negro family, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars or be imprisoned not less than 10, or more than 60 days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. MISSISSIPPIPromotion of Equality. Any person...who shall be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating printed, typewritten or written matter urging or presenting for public acceptance or general information, arguments or suggestions in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and Negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine or not exceeding five hundred (500.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or both. NORTH CAROLINATextbooks. Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.Libraries. The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals. VIRGINIATheaters. Every person … operating … any public hall, theater, opera house, motion picture show or any place of public entertainment or public assemblage which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate the white race and the colored race and shall set apart and designate … certain seats therein to be occupied by white persons and a portion thereof, or certain seats therein, to be occupied by colored persons.Railroads. The conductors or managers on all such railroads shall have power, and are hereby required, to assign to each white or colored passenger his or her respective car, coach or compartment. If the passenger fails to disclose his race, the conductor and managers, acting in good faith, shall be the sole judges of his race. WYOMINGIntermarriage. All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are and shall be illegal and void.
African Americans • Booker T. Washington • Believed that African Americans could achieve economic prosperity, independence, and the respect of whites through hard work as farmers, craft workers, and laborers. • Bend to white racism, by accepting without challenge Jim Crow laws… • Policy known as accommodation • W.E.B. Du Bois • First African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. • A founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. • Wanted African Americans to demand equality at once. • Many whites believed…”Now as to the Negroes! I entirely agree with you that as a race and in the mass (they) are altogether inferior to the whites.” • President Theodore Roosevelt • Some women progressives did support African Americans…like Jane Addams.
Immigrants • Immigrants “New” – Southern and eastern Europe. • U.S. became a melting pot – a society in which various racial, ethnic, and cultural groups were blended together. • Nativism – a policy of favoring native born individuals over foreign born ones • Many opposed immigrants because they were Catholic, Jewish, or Eastern Orthodox Christians. • “No Irish need apply” “John’s Restaurant. Pure American. No Rats. No Greeks.” • Eugenics movement-an effort to improve the human race by controlling breeding. • Forced sterilization of inmates in some states and individuals who were diagnosed as having severe mental disabilities.
Restrictions on immigration • By 1917, Congress refused entry to immigrants over the age of 16 who could not pass a literacy test. (most did not come from English speaking countries) • “Old” immigrants were from Northern and western Europe. • “New” immigrants were from Southern and eastern Europe. • Immigrants began printing their own newspaper, athletic and social clubs, and its own theater groups. • Supported local political machines
Workers and Radicals • Sherman Antitrust Act • Strikes were illegal • Set up to battle business monopolies—worked on unions. • Socialist groups rising– blaming capitalist system where as progressives blamed owners. • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) formed in Chicago in 1905, wanted a single union for all workers. • Direct action by employees • Radical group
Bisbee Deportation 1917 • Bisbee, Arizona, 1917 • Issues: • Copper was in demand—WWI • Copper prices were up • Wages stayed the same • Conditions not good • Workers and IWW members went on strike. • On July 12, 1917,---1,185 men were herded into filthy boxcars by an armed vigilante force in Bisbee, Arizona, and abandoned across the New Mexico border. The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was not only a pivotal event in Arizona's labor history, but one that had an effect on labor activities throughout the country.
Cross purposes of the Progressives • African Americans • Immigrants • Socialists • Radical worker groups – IWW • These groups suffered the most from the social ills that motivated progressives, but did not get the benefits they needed.
Tuesday 11/27/12 RAP Define these terms from Ch. 9.3 • Eugenics • Melting pot • Accommodation • Nativism Today: Finish Presidents video Review Presidents Review quietly for test on Ch. 8 and 9 tomorrow.
Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Chart • As a class we will complete the chart on the board. • During the video add information. • Venn diagram will be completed if time permits.
