Farming Issues
Click the button titled "Ch.7 The Progressive Era" above and read pages 106-107. Be prepared to answer these questions on the Schoology quiz: #1 What were some of the problems farmers faced in the late 19th century (1870-1900)? #2 How did the Granger cooperatives attempt to help America's farmers? #3 What was the mission of the Interstate Commerce Commission? |
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Child Labor
Click the button titled "Child Labor" and read the article. Be prepared to answer these questions on the Schoology quiz: #1 Why did employers choose to hire children? #2 What actions did reformers take to try to inform the public about how working children were exploited? |
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Pure Food and Drug Act
Click the button titled "Pure Food and Drug Act" and read the article. Be prepared to answer these questions on the Schoology quiz: #1 What were some of the market conditions that led reformers (muckrakers) to argue that food and medicine needed government regulation? #2 What changes did reformers enact to improve the safety of the public in the food and drug industry? |
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Click the button titled "19th Amendment" and read the article. Be prepared to answer these questions on the Schoology quiz:
#1 What civil right did the 19th Amendment guarantee? #2 What actions did supporters of women's suffrage take to achieve their goals? |
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Lawyer Atticus Finch gives his final arguments in the trial of Tom Robinson in the movie, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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Read this article on Jim Crow Laws from the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University, Michigan
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A mob of men plan to lynch Tom Robinson while he is in custody
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Jim Crow Laws
With the end of Reconstruction, legislatures in the southern states passes laws intended to enforce racial segregation. Jim Crow laws also encompassed laws which required the ownership of property, paying a poll tax, or being able to read as conditions to vote. The intent and consequence was a limiting of the voting rights of African Americans. These laws were enforced by government officials as well as by the violence and intimidation of vigilante groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. |