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8th Grade Social Studies
Chapter 19
Required Assignments: Due Date
1. Read Chapter Oral Quizzes NA
2. Chapter Questions Timeline due 5/23, Section 1 due 5/24, Section 2 due 5/29,
Section 3 5/30, Section 4 due 5/31, Section 5 due 6/1
3. Chapter Test Review 6/4
4. Video Newscast (presented next unit-see me) - choice NA
5. Videos:
Video: Reluctant World Power ?
DVD: The Great War ?
DVD 10 Days: Murder at the Fair ?
Jeopardy 6/4
Test 6/5
Choice Assignments/Presentations!
1. Draw Map on page 629 6/4 15
2. Building the Panama Canal 6/4 ?
3. Books – Farewell to Arms / All's Quiet / Unbroken/notes 6/19 150
Choice required 5
Chapter 19 Section 1: The Gilded Age
1. Define Political Machines:
2. How were political machines a local and national problem?
3. Who was Tweed and what was Tammany Hall?
4. Why was Cleveland a good president?
5. Define Spoils System:
6. What was the Pendelton Civil Service Act?
Section 1 Assessment:
1a.
1b.
2a.
2b.
2c.
Chapter 19 Section 2: The Progressive Movement
1. Define Progressives:
2. Define Muckrackers:
3. What did Lawrence Veiller believe?
3. Answer the picture question on page 611
4. Tell about John Dewey
5. Tell about Joseph McCormack
6. Define direct primary.
7. Define 17th Amendment
8. Define recall.
9. Define initiative.
10. Define referendum.
Section 2 Assessment
Chapter 19: Section3 - Reforming the Workplace
1. Who was Florence Kelley?
2. How did reformers try to change labor conditions for children?
3 Look at page 617 and answer the question.
4. Page 618 answer the Primary Source questions.
5. What did Lochner V. New York express?
6. What did Muller v. Oregon express?
Section 3 Assessment
Reform Literature: read the Jungle. Any thoughts?
Chapter 19, Section4: The Rights of Women and Minorities.
1. What did reformers do and accomplish to change society? (Pages 623-624)
2. How were Du Bois and Washington different and the same?
3. What was the purpose of the NAACP?
How did reform affect native Americans?
Section 4 Assessment
Chapter 19, Section5 – The Progressive Presidents
1. Tell about Roosevelt and reforms.
2. What happened to Taft?
3. Why did Wilson win?
4. What were Wilson’s reforms?
Section 5 Assessment:
Test Review Chapter 19
Governor Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin began a program of reforms called the Wisconsin Idea, which did what?
What was spoils system?
What were the main issues of female progressives?
A union member might have claimed that capitalism was unfair because?
In the 1908 case of Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court decided that it could uphold a law limiting women’s working hours on the grounds that?
Why did Chinese immigration drop in the late 1800s?
How did progressives fight crime, disease, and poverty?
A child living its early years in dark rooms, without sunlight or fresh air, does not grow up to be a normal healthy person. . . . It is not of such material that strong nations are made. – Lawrence Veiller
What was Lawrence Veiller warning the nation about what?
City and country politics in the late 1800s were influenced by organizations called?
Progressive reformers supported the following changes.
In Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court ruled that states could not restrict the rights of employers and workers to enter into any type of labor agreement they wished. However, the Supreme Court upheld Muller v. Oregon, which limited working hours for women. Which reason best explains why?
How were progressives and their Populist predecessors alike?
William Howard Taft’s reforms angered progressives because they
We have been proud of our industrial achievement, but we have not hitherto [yet] stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, . . . the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the . . . burden of it all has fallen. Who said these words?
Which of the following did Theodore Roosevelt do to help the conservation movement?
What might Democrat Grover Cleveland have said in a debate with his Republican opponents?
After winning city elections in 1888, how did Tammany Hall reward its supporters?
What was the task of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
What was the main effect of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on the labor movement?
Why were the interests of American Indians were overlooked by the progressive reform movement?