Monday 11/9RAP

AGREE / DISAGREE

It is the government's responsibility to protect the public interest and restore order to society.

EXPLAIN!!!

Today:1. RAP2. Jungle reading3. Review Ch. 8.24. Newspaper groups

Objective:SWBAT

understand different problems facing immigrants describe problems facing the US today.

“The Jungle”by Upton Sinclair

1. Popcorn read the Jungle– Answer questions as we go—– Title—The Jungle Questions– Discuss questions with the person sitting

next to you; make sure you write them down!

2. Compare with society today

“The Jungle” by Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair was a muckraker, who wrote about the

horrid conditions of the meat packing industry.

Popcorn read…1. What problems did the new immigrants face?2. How were workers mistreated in the packing plant?3. What corrupt practices did the meat-packing industry

follow?4. Why was the public more concerned with the

descriptions of filthy surroundings and tainted meat than with the unfair and dangerous working conditions?

Group DiscussionFAST FOOD NATION TRAILERIn your groups of 3 or 4, please come up

with what you think is the biggest or most pressing issue facing the US today.

1. Please have one person write down the issue for your group.

2. Describe why you believe this is the biggest issue facing the US.

3. Please come up with at least one solution to the problem or issue.

Reformers• Lester Ward—

– Analyzed social concerns of the time.– He challenged the widely held belief

that it was natural for the strong to prosper while the weak suffered.

– Believed what was natural was for the people to control and change their social environment—laws, customs, and relationships among people – for their own benefit.

– “…society to take its affairs into its own hands and shape its own destinies.”

Reformers--Muckrakers• Ida Tarbell – muckraker

– Wrote articles exposing the ruthless methods of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.

– Her father was crushed by Standard Oil.

• Upton Sinclair – – Wrote “The Jungle”– Exposed the unsanitary practices of the

meatpacking industry• Helped in getting the Pure Food and Drug Act and the

Meat Inspection Act passed.

Religious Reformers

• Walter Rauschenbusch-– Social gospel movement– Blamed fierce competition for many social ills– Believed that environmental conditions such as

poverty, and not individual depravity, caused the ills in society.

– Every Christian should strive to better economic and political conditions.

Activists• Florence Kelley

– Battled child labor– General secretary of the National

Consumers League (NCL)– Child labor law enacted in 1916-by

President Wilson; later struck down in 1918 by the Supreme court—decision for each state.

• Jane Addams-– Hull House in Chicago– Wanted to help the poor—house set

up to teach English, daycare, and social events

ActivistsMargaret Sanger

– NY nurse, launched a drive to inform women about ways they could prevent pregnancy.

• She had seen many women who died from poorly performed abortions.

– She was arrested in 1914 for violating the Comstock Act

• In 1916, Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States

• Comstock Act– information describing birth control was considered obscene.

– Charges were dropped in 1916.– Sanger's efforts contributed to the

landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which legalized contraception in the United States.

– criticized for supporting eugenics – Negro Project-- many felt she was

against African Americans. The project was to give birth control to poor African Americans.

Activists

• Ida B. Wells– Anti-lynching movement– After 3 African Americans

were lynched in Memphis, Ida B. Wells moved to Chicago to launch a national campaign against lynching.

– Racial oppression triggered the founding of

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1908

• National Urban League (1910)

Newspaper groups• Four people in a group!• Go over requirements.• Each person needs to take a page to write in the

newspaper. (ex. Front page, business page, etc)• Lab next week—the only 2 days we will have to

work on the newspaper using a computer.– Monday and Tuesday

• Work on answering questions for your newspapers.

Review Ch. 8.2

Illustrated Vocabulary Ch. 8

Ch. 8.2• Progressive • Muckraker• Social gospel movement• Settlement house

Ch. 8.1• tenement• Suburb• Urbanization• Immigrant• Political machine• Trust

• Ch. 8.3

• Direct primary

• Initiative

• Referendum

• Recall