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PROGRESSIVISM UNIT

PROGRESSIVISM UNIT. 8 TH GRADE SC HISTORY 3 RD NINE WEEKS 2009. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. Progressivism: Muckraking Journalists Culture conflict. Social movements. Pre-Civil Rights Ida B. Wells W.E.B. DuBois: NAACP (1909). Social movements. Child Labor Laws 1903: 12 yrs old

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PROGRESSIVISM UNIT

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  1. PROGRESSIVISM UNIT 8TH GRADE SC HISTORY 3RD NINE WEEKS 2009

  2. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS • Progressivism: • Muckraking Journalists • Culture conflict

  3. Social movements • Pre-Civil Rights • Ida B. Wells • W.E.B. DuBois: • NAACP (1909)

  4. Social movements • Child Labor Laws • 1903: 12 yrs old • 1917: 14 yrs old • 1937: 16 yrs old

  5. Social movements • Education: • Illiterate mill workers • Compulsory attendance laws • Raised funding through taxes

  6. Social movements • Hospitals: • Reorganized • Better medical treatment • Libraries: • New libraries built • Money raised by women’s leagues

  7. Social movement • Tax Reformers: • Governor Manning: • Changes in criminal justice system • Workman’s comp • SC Tax Commission • SC Hwy Dept (1917) • Governor Cooper: • Raised taxes to inc spending on public edu • 7 month school period • Low graduation rates

  8. ACTIVITY • Graphic organizer on Social Movements

  9. Social Movement • Temperance/ Prohibition • What is it? BAN ON ALCOHOL • 18th Amendment • 21st Amendment • SC Dispensary: created by Tillman • Bootleggers

  10. Social movement • Women’s Suffrage • What is it? WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE • Began prior to the Civil War • White women upset blacks get to vote b4 them • 1890: Equal Rights Association

  11. Women’s suffrage continued • 19th Amendment passed 1919 • Winthrop College • Tillman’s “sun bronzed goddess” • Argument for suffrage by women

  12. activity • Journal about being a woman fighting for the right to vote • Share your journal with your group members • Write down a summary of your group members journals • Share the best journal in your group with the class

  13. activity • Tableau (what you did for Native Americans) • Get into your assigned groups and assign roles to EACH MEMBER • Look at the description of your scene and create a 2 minute skit based on what we have learned • You may argue for or against the issue assigned to you

  14. WW1 in SC • WW1 causes: • Nationalism • World domination • 1917: Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany

  15. WW1 in SC • War’s impact on SC • New Bases created • Cola (Columbia) • GVL • Charleston • Parris Island • Spartanburg • Agricultural boom

  16. African Americans in WW1 • Volunteered to prove patriotism • Many came home to high racism • Riots • We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting! Make way for Democracy! We saved it in France, and by the great Jehovah, we will save it in the United Stated of America, or know the reason why."

  17. In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep,though poppies growIn Flanders fields. ~JOHN MCCRAE

  18. ACTIVITY • Analyze the following examples of propaganda from WW1. Look for: • Glittering generalities • Bias • Transfer • Band-wagon • Testimonial • Now, create your own propaganda and label the propaganda device(s) that you used.

  19. SC after WW1 • Political Changes: • Progressive movement ended • 19th Amendment • Social Changes: • Women could vote • Racism • Population shifts

  20. SC after WW1 • Economic Changes: • Decline in population • Industry grew • Auto • Electricity • Cotton and tobacco prices fall

  21. SC after WW1 • Changes in Industry: • Northern investors • Mill village conditions improve • “Speed Up” and “Stretch Out” • By end of 1920’s: market crashed

  22. SC after WW1 • Cities and towns installed water and sanitation systems; paved streets and roads • Rural Electrification programs grew • Suburbs grew • Radio stations improved communication in rural areas • Autos became common  travel and vacation

  23. Activity • RAFT • ROLE • AUDIENCE • FORMAT • TYPE • Complete a raft on these roles: • Farmer • Mill worker • Someone who just got power • Someone buying their first car

  24. Cultural changes of the 20’s • Prohibition: • Failed in SC • Bootleggers • Moonshiners • Blue Laws strictly enforced

  25. Cultural changes • Boll Weevil • Cotton crop • Peaches and livestock • Emigration

  26. Cultural changes • Mass Media: • 1920’s: 1st radio stations on air • Growth of communications • Movies • Jazz Era • Clubs • Flappers • Re-birth of blues

  27. GROUPS • PROHIBITION A: • LANDON, STACEY, ZAYNAB, DEBORAH • PROHIBITION B: • TAJ, BROOKE, ABI • BOLL WEEVIL A: • CYDNEY, BROOKLYN, KEVIN • BOLL WEEHVIL B: • DARIAN, QUENDALL, DAVID, MEREDITH • MASS MEDIA A: • TREY, AK, HUNTER, CATHERINE • MASS MEDIA B: • DENISHA, ANNA, SEAN, KENNEDIE

  28. Activity • Get into your 6 assigned groups • Create a poster board about your topic. Use the pictures and your notes to create a collage about the cultural change assigned to you. • Remember our group rules. • Have fun and be creative!

  29. DIRECTIONS • ROARING 20’S POSTERS (25 PT QUIZ) • On your board • Title (3 PTS) • 4-5 Pictures (5PTS) • Caption for each picture (5PTS) • At bottom: (12 PTS) • Describe historical event • List causes of the historical event • Explain the significance of the event

  30. Cultural changes • Tourism: • Increase of cars • Northern interest in “Old South” • Segregation still in effect

  31. Cultural changes • Southern Literacy Renaissance • Celebration of SC’s heritage • Poetry Society of SC • Southern Literature • Eudora Welty • William Faulkner • Zora Hurston • Robert Penn Warren

  32. Cultural Changes • KKK: • Birth of a Nation (1915) • New Targets • Smarter  pol’l pwr and big business • “Moral Regulators”

  33. ACTIVITY • Graphic Organizer • Each cultural change we have discussed is important • Create a chart that looks like this…

  34. Great Depression in SC • Causes of Great Depression: • Buying on credit • Bank Failures • Reduction of purchasing

  35. Great Depression in SC • Constant depression • 25% unemployed • Birth and marriage rates down

  36. Great Depression in SC • FDR and the New Deal (1932) • “Nothing to fear but fear itself” • New Deal Programs

  37. activity • Great Depression Jigsaw • Get into your assigned groups and read the journal given to you. • Discuss and write down 3 main ideas from diary • When timer goes off, go back to your home group to share what you have learned.

  38. Great Depression in SC • CCC: Civilian Conservation Corps • Nation’s parks • 50,000 SC men worked in this program • Hunting Island, Paris Mountain, Poinsett and Myrtle Beach State Park • Segregated/ MEN • Est 30 camps across the state

  39. Great Depression in SC • WPA: Social Security Act • Improved community • Roads, airports, playgrounds, bridges, hospitals and schools • Artists made murals • Recorded history • Jobs for Youth

  40. Great Depression in SC • PWA : Public Works Administration • Improved community • Schools, Libraries, courthouses, aircraft carriers • Money given to governments

  41. Great Depression in SC • Social Security Act • Federal Insurance Contribution Act • Prevent future depressions • Protected elderly, disabled, and unemployed • No insurance program offered before this time in SC • Elderly poverty rates declined • Cost shared by workers

  42. Great Depression in SC • Santee Cooper electricity project • Largest New Deal project in SC • Built dams on Santee and Cooper Rivers • Created Lake Marion and Moultrie • Hydroelectric dams • Rural Electrification Act • Power to farms and rural areas • 1940: 25% farms had power

  43. Great Depression in SC • New Deal helped • Not end all to problem though • Depression ended during WW2

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