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Bell Work

Bell Work. Who’s leading in the polls? Who do you think will win the election and why? Are you going to watch the VP debate? Turn in your essay if you have not done so! . Please put yourself in groups of 3 or 4 and discuss the following questions:.

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Bell Work

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  1. Bell Work • Who’s leading in the polls? • Who do you think will win the election and why? • Are you going to watch the VP debate? • Turn in your essay if you have not done so!

  2. Please put yourself in groups of 3 or 4 and discuss the following questions: What kind of actions can bring about social change? What type of actions “might” pressure big business to change? How can individuals bring about change in their government? How might reformers recruit others?

  3. Progressivism a broadly based reform movement in response to industrialization p. 306-312

  4. Four Goals: (p.307) • Protect Social Welfare • Promote Moral Improvement • Economic Reform • Foster Efficiency

  5. Social Welfare • Help for the needy • YMCA • Salvation Army • Focused on … ? • Women & Kids

  6. Moral Improvement • Fix morals = fix society • How does changing behavior improve lives? • Prohibition • Ban the booze! • Benefits? Costs? • What are people fighting against now?

  7. Economic Reform • Panic of 1893 • Led to criticisms of capitalism • What are some arguments against our economic system? • Increased interest in socialism • Gov’t controls factors of production • Pros? Cons?

  8. Eugene V . Debs - Socialist • Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. • The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything. • Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

  9. Muckrakers • Journalists who exposed corruption • Targets included: • Standard Oil • US Steel • Meat Packers

  10. Excerpt from The Jungle • “…consider one single item, the washing of dishes…And note that this is the most filthy and deadening and brutalizing work; that it is the cause of anemia, nervousness, ugliness, and ill-temper; of prostitution, suicide, and insanity; of drunken husbands and degenerate children—for all things the community has naturally to pay”

  11. Efficiency • Assembly Lines • Workers as machines

  12. So what’s your P.O.V.? • Choose two major problems facing America today. • Why are they problems? • What should we do about them? • Prepare a short argument—by yourself—about why each is important. Include a possible solution. • Remember: Your job is to make us care.

  13. Review • What are the 4 goals of the Progressive Movement? • Which President do you feel was the most Progressive and why?

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