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Becoming a World Power

Becoming a World Power. Chapter 6, Lesson 2 Reading Guide. Problems with an industrial society. Dangerous factories Poorly trained workers had accidents Children were injured badly and sometimes killed working in factories Smoke, smog, pollution from factories filled the air

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Becoming a World Power

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  1. Becoming a World Power Chapter 6, Lesson 2Reading Guide

  2. Problems with an industrial society • Dangerous factories • Poorly trained workers had accidents • Children were injured badly and sometimes killed working in factories • Smoke, smog, pollution from factories filled the air • If children are working, they are not attending school • Waste is dumped in rivers and lakes • Forests were cut down and no new trees replaced them • Frequent explosions and accidents in coal mines

  3. Lesson 2: The Progressive Movement Vocabulary to know: trust muckraker Progressives conservation Blue Laws You should be able to… Analyze how social, political, moral, and economic reforms during the T.Roosevelt presidency affected Americans. Explain the role of media and the arts in the Progressive Movement Discuss the accomplishments and limits of the Progressive Movement

  4. Trust vs. Monopoly What is the difference between a monopoly and a trust? Monopoly: A monopoly is a company that owns all parts of a business Trust: A trust is when different companies meet to reduce competition and form prices within the same range.

  5. Trust vs. Monopoly What is the difference between a monopoly and a trust? If McDonald’s owned cattle ranches, potato farms, bread factories, trucking companies, pickle factories, condiment factories, soda factories, and paper making factories, it would own ALL PARTS of its business. That would be a MONOPOLY. When the owners of McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, and Hardee’s all get together and agree that they will all charge five dollars for all of their burgers. That is a TRUST. (and you can’t go anywhere else to get a cheaper burger!)

  6. Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressives Would you rather work 12-14 hours a day at a dangerous job or attend school? • What do you think the word muck means? • You go to Kroger to buy chicken and beef. How does it get there? Muck is Yuck!!

  7. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle • An instant best-seller, Sinclair's book reeked with the stink of the Chicago stockyards. He told how dead rats were shoveled into sausage-grinding machines; how bribed inspectors looked the other way when diseased cows were slaughtered for beef, and how filth and guts were swept off the floor and packaged as "potted ham."

  8. Ida Tarbell and the Muckrakers • A new generation of investigative journalists, later dubbed "muckrakers" by President Theodore Roosevelt, had set out to wage a campaign to expose corruption in business and political lawlessness. Tarbell latched onto the idea of using the story of Standard Oil to illustrate these troubling issues, persuading McClure to agree to a three-part series on the oil trust.

  9. Ida Tarbell "The History of the Standard Oil Company" would be hailed as a landmark in the history of investigative journalism, as well as the most comprehensive study of the building of Rockefeller’s oil empire. In 1999 it was listed number five among the top 100 works of twentieth-century American journalism.

  10. Turn and Talk! • Name two important Muckrakers and what they wrote to help Americans! • Look on page 265. Name five new laws that the Progressives helped pass!

  11. The 16th Amendment: Income Tax • Our country needed MONEY for all that it wanted to do with reforms. • In 1913, Congress decided to TAX all working people’s INCOME (money they made from doing work). • Now, when you get paid in the US, you MUST donate a part of your earned income to the federal government!!

  12. Caring for Nature • What does it mean to “conserve” something? Conservation is protecting something from being destroyed or used up. Let’s see what our President and his friend John Muir saw!! Yosemite National Park

  13. Grand Canyon National Monument In 1908, President Roosevelt set aside 800,000 acres in Arizona as the Grand Canyon National Monument. It would later become a national park.

  14. Our Nature President • Created the National Wildlife Refuge Program • Organized the US Forestry Service • Stopped the sale of 235 acres and made them into national forests • Grand Canyon in Arizona • Yosemite in California • Created more than 16 national monuments, 51 wildlife refuges, and 5 new national parks by the time he left office in 1909!!!

  15. "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." • What do you think President Roosevelt meant by this statement? • Homework: read pgs. 268-269 about political cartoons. Complete the 3 Think and Apply Questions as well as workbook page 59

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